We thought about taking the 20-minute elephant ride up to see this palace, but opt’ed out when we looked at the 2-hr waiting line. This is how the kings would enter the place ….
I keep thinking of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit looking at these structures…
The inners are all filled with all sorts of art works…
what do you give a king for his birthday who has everything ? Another elephant of course:
then, there’s the cleaning crew
and the musicians
Stange looking Westerners keep popping into our view, sometimes royalty… sometimes court clowns… sometimes both:
Afterwards we went to a rug making shop and watched a demo… watch out for the knife:
the block printing also caught our eye:
While Annie showed, I played chess with a saleman. I was thinking of buying this set because the pieces were so confusing. It back-fired on me… I mistook a bishop for a knight and lost a rook…. making the game more fun for me (like like to play from behind) and I lost my first game in India…. We had a good laugh.
Time to head back to the hotel and deal with the typical traffic:
We even saw local balloons for sale (with the 50 lbs I brought with me, we didn’t buy any):
Back at the hotel I had fun with a guy from Brazil and his daughter…. they live in Spain and come here to buy merchandise for their store:
Time for a new city and adventure…