Unpacking India...
Back home with all my shoes, no small feat accomplishment considering how many times we slipped them off on the journey.
There’s something liberating, inexplicably comforting - even primal- to bare one’s soles. in India. With feet on the ground, boldly exposed, we kicked off our shoes right and left, out respect while visiting mosques, temples, tombs, sacred caves -- shops selling carpets and pashminas-- and the homes of friends ...
Ah, the touch and feel of India. Incredible India.
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| Details from Fatehpur Sikri, UNESCO World Heritage Site on the road from Agra to Jaipur. Palace-city of the Mughals (1571-1585) built of red sandstone, the buildings are an breathtaking fusion of influences: Indian, Persian and Islamic architecture. |
The land of sacred ground and sacred cows, ancient stone cities, silks, and knotted wool, dirt floors and gleaming marble palace halls.
The tour books call it the Golden Triangle: from Delhi (India’s capital city) to Agra, (home to the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World) we travel to Jaipur, the “Pink City” capital of the state of Rajasthan.
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| Guardian elephants at the City Palace, Jaipur |
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| In the City Palace Courtyard stand the giant silver urns commissioned by Madho Singh II to carry holy water from the Ganga on a trip to England. |
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| Outdoor seating in the gardens of "our palace" - the Rambaugh Palace Hotel. |
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| Our dear friend and host, PKR in thought at breakfast, |
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| Rambaugh Palace hospitality |
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