September 15th, 2009
Lovely Jaipur
I needed a quiet retreat from the hustle and bustle of jaipur and was advised by someone at Jaipur luxury hotels that this historical outpost with the high look outs might be a nice place to go. Actually, this made sense, as military forts (are there any other kind?) will go to the high ground, naturally, as it is easier to defend. As it is on a hill, the rick sh-aw i was riding in had a tough time hauling my carcass up that hill, at times I thing I had to get out about and get ready to walk or push, but somehow we made it in the morning light. This guy who had it had nine wives apparently, (as any one who has had one, one wife is enough, in a good way of course!) and I could not imagine having so much and being a rajah, if that is the right word. This one, known as the Fort of Victory and was once part of a princely state located in Rajasthan and founded by Maharaja Sawai. I noticed they make headlamps here for automobiles in one of the industrial areas. Aside from light industrial, on e would think tourism must be huge here. And it is, what with pink forts and astonishing architecture of this once militarily significant past redoubt. The lanes and streets of the city are designed on a grid pattern, which seems to follow a kind of architecture, rather than a jumble of confused lanes, like in other cities in India and in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Ambur Fort gleams in the light, and the place has a kind of fairy land existence of stunning architecture and wide and spacious boulevards. the geometry of the city is pleasing, and reminds of the classic designs of Olmstead in turn of the nineteenth century America.
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