Friday, August 13, 2010

Jaipur- Forts and Garbage

After a wonderful time in Jaisalmer we took an overnight train and arrived in Jaipur at 5am, and luckily found a room at a hotel. After a couple hours of sleep, we headed out to explore the famous pink city. We explored the city palace and Amber fort in what felt like 45 degree heat. The city was nice but as everywhere in India they really have a garbage problem as it is absolutely everywhere. On every street there are tons of garbage mounds and the animals are always eating the garbage. On one heap of garbage Ness and I saw pigs, cows, water buffalo, pigs, dogs, and chickens all chowing down on garbage. Besides being a religious belief to not eat certain type of meat no wonder the majority of the India citizens do not eat any meat. Ness has been a Vegetarian the whole trip so far, but I have a weakness for tandoori chicken so I have been cheating a bit.

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