Like I said, I had to stop at the pharmacy to pick up some cold medicine. There was an advertisement that said a particular vitamin would make you taller, stronger and smarter. Just had to take a picture to add to the Taller wall of fame in our house.
We visited another palace that was out in the rural area. It was quite lovely and all carved and beautiful as most of the palaces were.
This one was pretty interesting in that the king who built it had a Christian wife, a Hindu wife and a Muslim wife. He wanted to have a connection to all the people, but I think he just wanted to have all his bases covered. He also had a bunch of concubines.
There was another nice garden in this palace that we admired.
Everything was well kept. The "gardeners" gave us seed for some of the plants, but it was just a ploy to make 10 rupees off the Americans.
Not five minutes later this guy was dusting off part of the palace and wanted to take my picture. For 5 rupees. I was on to this scam by now and just took his picture and walked away. By this time in the trip, I was getting pretty savy to these scams and buying stuff.
Again, lots of carving. It was interesting in that they had figured out all these ways to cool the areas with little channels of water between an outer and inner wall and to irrigate the gardens.
The Christian wife was most into carving because her apartment had flowers all over the place
And this king was really into games and his concubines. He had a parcheesi board laid out in stone in an area and used his brightly dressed concubines to be the pieces and they danced from space to space. You should have seen Aunt Becky's rendition of this.
The happy newly weds.
Then we were back in the tourist van for the drive to Japuir. We took some pics out the windows during the drive
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