Greatest mouche in the world! This guy was so sweet. He was the doorman at our hotel. Anyway, one day I took a closer look at his face and I realized that those swirls were a braided mouche and it was real. It took him 17 years to grow and IT IS EPIC.
the city palace in Jaipur. Me and trish at the winter gate. It would have been fun to stay longer but it was so damn hot. Damn you India and your lack of air-conditioning. We were melting, so we did the city palace pretty fast and then ran home. Interesting story about that actually. When we were doing our elephant rides up at the winter palace these hawkers were snapping photos of us. Anyway, on the way out, they'd try to sell them to us. This one fellow called 'Lucky' got about 6 shots of me and trish and he tried to sell them to mom but she didn't want them. Anyway he followed us all the way to our car. He was really persistent. Hours later when we were down in the city visiting the city palace another man started following us. I don't know how he tracked us down, but he was trying to sell us Lucky's photos. When he brought them out I had this moment of shock. I was like 'how the hell did you find me?' and although I was impressed with this mad stalking skills I still didn't buy the photos.
These were taken at the Jaipur observatory. It was built by emperor Akhbar so they could study the stars and calculate the exact position of the sun. There is a giganticnormous sundial that I couldn't fit in the shot. Anyway, apparently this was all important for horoscopes. Here's me with the Taurus sundial. Let's go Taurus, let's go !
This lovely old man taught me carpet weaving.
old palace in Jaipur. It's being renovated and will be turned into a hotel. Right now though, it's a sad mess. The lake has been so polluted that the fish are all dead. There's garbage floating around in it and the palace is supposed to be no better. It saddens me that the government couldn't take proper care of this beautiful monument and the only way for it to be restored was for it to be sold to a private company.
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