November 27, Jaipur - the Pink City

Greetings from the Pink City and home of the last Maharaja. We've been here a few days and are enjoying it. Today we saw some neat sun dials at the Astronomy Observatory and outside, Jeff petted a King Cobra! We also walked around the outside of the City Palace and the red sandstone walls of the old city center. Our hotel is pretty nice and gets HBO so we've been catching up on some mind-numbing activities as well. :-)

We had planned to go to a movie here, but after hearing that two cinemas near where we stayed in Delhi were bombed by Pakistanis two days ago killing 60 we haven't gone. For the most part we do feel safe here, but definitely noticed - Liz gets stared at constantly for being "blonde" and Jeff for his long hair.

Originally we were planning just to spend time in Rajasthan, but we are missing the ocean so just decided to go to Goa. First we'll train to Bombay (Mumbai) and then catch a train from there down the coast. We leave tomorrow at 8:30 PM at arrive in Bombay at 2 PM the following day, and hope to be in Goa shortly thereafter.

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