As we walked to breakfast, we enjoyed the beautiful sunrise at the camp. I thoroughly enjoyed the food.
We went back to Jaipur via a different route from which we had come. This was through one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. We stopped for lunch at McDonald’s where Paul and I had veggie burgers, fries, and a coke. It was probably better than most McDonald’s burgers. A large party of young women were excited to see us. I walked over smiling at them, and I got their permission to take some of their pictures. They took ours too.
We rode on the bus about six hours back to Jaipur. We checked into the same hotel and same room where we had previously stayed. Then we went out to view the summer palace which is in a man-made lake. We spent a very short time checking out the venders in the park beside the lake. Then we went to a place that demonstrated woodblock printing. After that we were shown the process of making wool rugs. We had the opportunity to purchase rugs or silk products in another section of the complex. I wasn’t in the shopping mood, so I bought nothing.
After that, we stopped at a market. My attention span for shopping was gone. It took only ten minutes to realize that I was ready to eat dinner. Fifteen minutes later, we all went to an Italian restaurant which had rather tasteless food. On the way back to the hotel, the bus passed by three huge weddings. Our guide suggested that we crash one of them, but most of us wanted to just get back to the hotel. After we were in our room, we heard band music outside in the street. It was a wedding party parade, complete with drums and horns.
