Morning

23rd December,Tuesday 3:30 am in the morning, I asked my mum and dad to wake up. Till 4 am everyone was awake. Well, I didn’t sleep some credit goes to Mr. Rana, want to know more ask him :P.

Till 5 am everyone was ready for going, we were just waiting for the taxi. Within few minutes taxi came and we left the house for Jaipur. Yay! Don’t know about others, but I was excited for this trip because I just love travelling in winters and that too with family.

When we came out of the house, it was biting cold and fog. Yeah, very cold and very pleasant.

At around 5:30 am we reached the New Delhi Railway station. It felt good to with coolies and passengers all around. The arrival time of the train was 6 am , so we were just waiting for the train in cold shivering.

So the train Ajmer Shatabdi express arrived at 5:55 am Lol before time, I thought it would be late but No. So the train started moving within 10 minutes.

Well, we were offered many things in the train

1. Newspaper

2. lemon juice

3. Water bottle

4. Breakfast

Well, my train journey passed by sleeping, chatting, watching out and some muusik.

We reached Jaipur by 11 am and hotel by 11:30 am. The hotel was nice and the rooms were quite spacious. Without wasting much time we left the hotel for our trip :).

Places

Albert Hall

Jal Mahal

Choki dhani

Some glimpses :

Choki Dhani had a lot of cultural programs. It was a kind of a small village built depicting various village activities. Various shows were going on to entertain people like magic show,puppet show, traditional dances, camel ride, bullock cart.

There was a place where different places were built together like Goa, Sikkim, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Kerala, Rajasthan to show their houses etc.

Maharashtra food festival showing their dance and cultures. Well the dance was nice :).

It had a Kushti area where khusti was going on, the cave, and so many things that I can’t write about all :P.

In Kalagram

Kalagram was a kind of market. It had hand made stuff like:

Block screen printing

Traditional file folders

Paper mache

Rice writing

Crystal art

Marble art

Fabric

Jewellery

Pottery

Wood work

Mojari

Last but not the least food, the food was included in the entry ticket. Rajasthani food was served and we were allowed to eat as much as we want. It was Yummmmm!!

Well, it was very beautiful and the experience was too good. One should go there if you visit Jaipur.

After this we returned to the academy and I was so tired gone to sleep.

Day 2

It was December 24th and we woke up at around 9 am. We went downstairs for breakfast. Then we left the academy, where we were living at around 11 am for sight seeing.

Places

Amer Fort

You can get a view of this here:

Jantar Mantar

Citypalace

Hawa Mahal

Jauhari bazaar

Ganesh Mandir

Birla Mandir

After this we returned back to the academy at around 8:30 pm.

After dinner everyone was tired, so my mom, dad and brother went back to room, but I didn’t feel like going at the moment. I thought about going for a walk in the academy. Well the atmosphere was very pleasant :P. I walked for more than an hour, listening to one of my favourite band Explosions in the sky and then back to my room. After listening to some Potter’s tracks I went to sleep.

P.S: I may add more.