14/03/2010

We arrived in Jaipur at 5 am when it was still dark, the touts at the bus station were awake even at this time in the morning which is damn annoying because they want to offer you rides to their ‘cheap’ hotels or guesthouses and whatever else like looking in their jewelry shop or friend’s fabric shop. Excuse the language but “PLEASE F%CK OFF!!”

The guesthouse we were looking at were in walking distance from the bus terminal so we headed there by foot. Along the way an owner of a guesthouse offered us a cheap rate at 250 rupees and we decided to check it out, it had a nice garden but the room was a little run down and small and all the taps in the bathroom were leaking; not so good for a city that has limited water resources.Anyways we took it as we were tired from the journey.

We slept into the mid-afternoon till when we were hungry and set off into the town, like everywhere in India all the locals want to talk to you, which at first you respond politely and speak for a little while but when you talk to them every hundred meters or less it really takes a long time to get where you need to go. Some locals even invited us to some sort of rooftop party where that we agreed to go but after purchasing a bottle of whisky and started drinking from 6pm on the lawn of the garden in our guesthouse we were incapable of going anywhere. Whilst there we met a well spoken Indian guy named Robi who we shared our whisky with and he was kind enough to send someone from the hotel to get us dinner, at this point Emer and I were pretty battered and Emer went to bed to throw up. I stayed up of a little while longer drinking some rum with Robi but after I got the food in my gut I was ready to pass out and so I did.

Early morning Jaipur