Rajasthan | Mark Simms Photography

Shepherdess

Well my darling wife actually….in training to be a shepherdess:

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Welcome Guest

Not a big fan of Lizards in hotel rooms, but they do eat lots of bugs……so on that basis this little Gecko was very welcome:

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Jaipur Random

A few random images from around Jaipur:

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The Hawa Mahal or “Palace of the Winds” forms part of the east wall of the City Palace of Jaipur. It was built in 1799 to allow the ladies of the harem to watch processions in the street below, without themselves being seen by curious onlookers from outside the palace:

Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Jaipur Observatory

Next door to the City Palace is the Jaipur Observatory, built between 1728 and 1734. Its Hindu name is the Jantar Mantar and it contains a series of monumental instruments for “….measuring the harmony of the heavens.” The scale of this place is astonishing, with each instrument serving a particular function and still delivering accurate readings after nearly three hundred years: