rajasthan (part 1)

There's just too much to try and convey in words so it's time for another slide show... the short of it is: Pakistan/India border crossing pomposity, embarrassing portraits of babies, met a lovely Indian family traveling on an overnight train from Amritsar to Jaipur, crazy Jaipur traffic, tourists and touts and elephants and camels and sadhu's in the streets, scary monkeys, a procession of Durga devotees on the road to Udaipur (our driver "Bapu/Baboo?" has this flag of India on the dashboard that keeps falling over every time we hit a bump which is every other minute and he keeps setting it back up while simultaneously making prayers that look like baseball pitching signs each time he narrowly misses getting us creamed or passes a roadside shrine which is also about every other minute... comedy; oh, and he has an eye infection which isn't really what you want in a driver; oh, and he keeps spraying Axe body spray for men all around his waist whenever he passes gas... at least that's the only explanation I can think of.; oh, and he has been playing this horrific indian pop music that sounds like high pitched wailing set to a techno beat... he sings along!), gardens and lakes of Udaipur, Lake Palace, maharajah's palace, temples, strange idols covered in tin foil with little eyes painted back on, a model of the taj mahal in styrofoam, more cows, blah blah blah... and me riding the daily/hourly rollercoaster of excitement, enjoyment, frustration, disgust, despair, resolve, and exhaustion, as well as being hit up for money or hit on for sex (by boys) constantly. On to the pictures.