tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310578015477094974.post7328312951962649178..comments2024-02-25T07:20:11.481+00:00Comments on i travel stories - roy romsey: A taste of India - 27romseys@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02514422454057409496noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310578015477094974.post-18398181945764395392013-10-30T03:07:10.420+00:002013-10-30T03:07:10.420+00:00Roy, You should be writing for Lonely Planet or at...Roy, You should be writing for Lonely Planet or at the very least one of the travel blogs. You have described Jaipur just as it is. What visitor could ever forget the nature of the traffic? In my time there it was both unpredictable and chaotic. We arrived in the city behind cyclos carrying trade goods and would have struggled to average 5 kph. Our morning runs to the many sites were relatively trouble free but being the time of the Mother Earth Festival our returns in the evenings were another matter again. A 10 minute morning drive could readily turn into a one hour return. Then there were the traffic police who felt the best way to move a tuktuk along was to beat the rear panels with waddies. I was too amazed at this practice to even take a photograph but later played Spotto with others in identifying similarly beaten tuktuks from my bus seat. The aromas of the food preparation, the beggars, the piles of rubbish and the freely roaming animals combined to give the city its unique stamp. I envy your being able to stay so long in the country and the capacity to stay with folk you knew.Bobhttp://bigpond.comnoreply@blogger.com