Today is the day to say goodbye to Jaipur and carry on by train to Agra, the train left 15 minutes late, but everything is going well.
What stays in my memory is the Amber Palace and the forts. The Johari and Bapu bazaars, which were always full of people. The area around the City Palace and the Hawa Mahal or Palace of Winds, which has almost 1000 windows, built so that the women of the Maharaja’s family could observe the city without being seen.
In general Indians are very calm and patient and even keep themselves clean, in the midst of all the dirt you see.
On the streets the pavements are often taken over by cars, full of holes and electric wires where you never know if one is live, yesterday with the rain I even saw one sparking. On the street people eat wherever they can and throw everything on the ground, even if sometimes there’s a bin right next to them, it’s cultural.
You can even find, amid all the poverty on the street, someone selling corn to feed the pigeons.
Not everyone has running water and so in some places you see water tanks and wells where people go to drink and fill containers and big jugs to take the water home. Dishes are washed in basins and clothes are also boiled and dyed in basins. The dyeing is done in cauldrons of boiling water.
Few people are seen smoking around here, they have more of a habit of buying little sachets and chewing tobacco.
On the street you see lots of cows, goats, dogs, monkeys and I saw some dwarf donkeys and 3 rats since I’ve been here, which is a miracle.
As for money, there are a whole series of versions of banknotes for the same value and of coins too. The Revolut card works well for payments and withdrawals.