good morning again from India as you saw in our last video we have made our way to Jaipur
from Agra we took a first class train to get here and it was wonderful and today is the
day that we get to explore Jaipur so the first stop on our itinerary is the incredible Amber fort
The fort is actually a lot more impressive the closer and closer you get up
to it also it starts off with a bit of a walk to get to the top so we're already like out
of breath and it's still pretty early in the morning you can however take a few different
rides up either with a Jeep or what we've seen a lot of people do and we really don't
encourage is taking an elephant ride I guess it's a very popular way to go up but if you've
been watching this channel for a while you know Nicole and I are not really big on those
elephant rides so for us we're just gonna be walking up and enjoying the views as we
get our morning workout on okay we found the ticket booth tickets were 500 rupees per person
for foreign tourists and uh now we think we're going the right way to check out this fort
look how beautiful man the architecture here I love it like everywhere we go there's always
these incredible arches and then here we've got really nice colors which is fancy so to
explain Amber Fort and Jaipur you have to explain a little bit about Rajasthan which
is the province of India that we're in Rajasthan is known as like the land of Kings because
they had a lot of history with many many great Kings or what they call maharajas and each
of the maharajas always had their own Palace or their own Fort and Amber Fort is one of
those palaces or one of those forts from Amber Fort you can see a lot of other Forts in the
area from all the different maharajas but this one is one of the more popular ones to
visit in Jaipur because it's got such beautiful architecture both on the inside and the outside
I think one of my favorite reasons to go to like all these very big Indian tourist attractions
is you get to see some really cool like photography and videography displays like weddings or
some sort of important event it's just like such a beautiful place to take photos in I
am a little jealous that it'd be so neat to have this kind of in your backyard and take
some gorgeous shots so you can come over to like one of the sides of the palace or the
fort and there's this like beautiful Green Space where you get to see what looks like
the Garden area but if I'm honest it's like totally ruined for me because just in front
of us like the elephants are coming up and bringing people up and then bringing like
the people are riding them back down and it actually just looks so sad they're just so
discolored and I was sitting here watching them and like saw somebody just like just
smacking with these really sharp pick things smacking the front of his elephant I think
to make them walk faster I don't even know what he was trying to do when you see the
commercialization of animals especially elephants you see them so many places it's just not
a good thing and like if you do go on an elephant ride and your guide is like all good you know
he treats the animal kindly they're only doing that because you're on it wait till they drop
you off and you leave they might have like a different side all together because we're
noticing that the elephants that are going down without any like riders or guests on
them are being treated very differently than on the way up when they're carrying folks
up and if you can take a Jeep yeah just say no take a Jeep walk up there's lots of better
ways to enjoy the area without taking advantage of these elephants
so we're at the Hall of Mirrors or the room of mirrors um and this is kind of cool so
this was actually built because one of the Queens who lived here because the royalty
lived here one of the Queens wanted to sleep outside but she couldn't she wanted to be
like under the stars and so because she couldn't actually sleep outside under the stars they
made her a room of mirrors so it's like obviously very reflective and very beautiful I think
the mirrors are from Iran and they just make this whole space like beautiful and so ornate
what palace is complete without its own set of maze-like corridors and very tiny awkward
staircases
Look at this roof so beautiful what I think is really cool about visiting this
fort so far is that you just get to wonder like nothing's been blocked off and like you
think like am I allowed up here like it doesn't really look like I should be going up here
but you can just go up there and then you find places like this Jaipur has so many Forts
and palaces we won't be able to visit them all so we've devoted ourselves just to like
Amber Fort for today but like over the hills behind me you can see tons of other cool looking
Forts and they have like really long ramparts or long walls it kind of reminds me of like
the Great Wall of China it'd be neat to like walk up and down them one day but for us I
just want to soak in like one really good one today [Music]
so you may be wondering what the big fuss is over at this large crowd of people here turns
out its just Nicole suddenly this huge group of people came up and were like picture picture
picture and then like all these kids came up and are now just standing in front of Nicole
she's like eating her lunch just trying to just you know just doing her thing and uh
yeah there's a big crowd of people wanting photos
all right guys our next stop is the Panna Meena ka Kund Stepwell it's like right beside
the Amber Fort so Rajasthan is like more of like a deserty province there's a lot less
rainwater or tropical weather here these stepwells are made to capture all that rain
water at the bottom of the stepwells it actually hits the water table and when it gets rainy
during the rainy season this stepwell will kind of rise up and then fill full of water
to help sustain the locals until the next rainy season what's neat about it is that
the sides of it are surrounded with steps and then at all times of the year the water
level can be rising but any local could walk down and still reach the bottom of the well
without needing like you know like a long Shaft or anything like that why do I see bubbles
I see bubbles coming up from The Middle why so this step well was heavily used in the
past I don't think it's very well used now it is very green looking and I don't think
I'd be touching it any anytime soon let alone drink from it
there's a really cute Sleeping Dog there apparently it's like nine degrees cooler at the bottom
of the step well than it is at the top so it's probably a good place to take a nap also
you're actually to go like into the well but we heard online that if you just like bribe
the guards with I don't know how much money you can go down and we did see people going
down and taking some photos so I think that is a possibility yeah
so this is our next stop it's a bit of a short one it's just like to take photos come and
take a look this is the Jal Mahal or translates to Water Palace I think it was built in the
very late 1600s and it's like the what are they called again Maharaja I keep forgetting
that word the Maharaja would come here for like their holidays and it's literally a palace
in the middle of the lake but it's actually abandoned today yeah I don't think anybody's
there but and you can't go inside as tourists which is too bad I think it'd be a cool place
to walk around it seems like an awesome like Maharajan vacation house that's basically
what it is it's beautiful it's just a spot to come though and take a quick photo and
then move along Don't Touch the Water some delicious water if you need some I don't know
if the maharajas were enjoying the water at their vacation house but I don't think they
were like diving off the cliffs or anything like that with this kind of water maybe 300
years ago it was nice maybe it was pristine yeah maybe it probably was
so we just had a quick but delicious lunch we didn't Vlog any part of it because honestly
we were so starving and the food was so good and it smelled amazing it was so good that
we just we just have to focus on the food I got the Thali Rajasthani style and Nicole
had the chow mein so good but now we're on to our next stop which is Hawa Mahal
Holy smokes so this is Hawa Mahal I always forget the words Hawa Mahal which is actually
a part of like the main city Palace it's an extension where the women at the time who
couldn't show their faces the women would actually come and stay here so that whenever
there was something going on in the streets some parade some festivals something important
they could still watch without being seen by the public and it is stunning I'll also
add that Hawa means wind so it translates to wind Palace Hawa Mahal and I guess it's
the way it's design it's supposed to keep things Breezy on the inside for the women
who are watching that below also in case it wasn't clear they can't be seen for religious
purposes they had to like kind of cover their faces also you may notice that it's very pink
and a lot of Jaipur is super sink super sink super pink it's also they call it like the
pink City and I guess the reason is because in the 1800s Queen Victoria and her husband
were coming here for a visit and the color of hospitality is pink so they painted the
city pink and ever since then they have maintained the pink color okay I was just telling Nicole
that it doesn't really look pink it's like more of like a rusty orange color but maybe
after a couple hundred years a couple new different paint jobs it kind of became orange
instead of pink so that is orange
that's pink he's right it's like more of like an orangey Brown I'll give him that okay I
also want to say that part of the Jaipur experience here at Hawa Mahal is like enhanced by the
fact that I feel like all of Jaipur is here with us with all the traffic and all the people
and just like all the noises and sounds and smells it's a very major road there's tons
and tons of shopkeepers so it's a lot yeah this is a lot but it's awesome
all right so we've made our way to the city Palace but I just want to say we have been
using the same tuktuk driver all day we essentially like rented his service for the day so he
just he drops us off places and waits for us and it has taken all of the stress out
of getting around today he is absolutely wonderful best tuktuk driver we've ever had he's like
he doesn't try and bring us places we don't want to go he doesn't try and like upsell
us on some Services he has just been truly fantastic and as a huge perk his English is
wonderful so he's also taught us so much as we just like drive around today so we'll put
his uh details below if you want to check him out because he is top notch
see pink now to be fair that is proper pink that's not like Rusty orange pink look at
this place
so it's a little pricey to get in here like by sort of India standards but I mean wow
it's stunning
so the city Palace is really just like known because the Royal Family actually continues
to live here they've lived here for a couple of centuries they continue to live here but
they also have really cool events who knows what this either was or is going to be but
they host events here I think there was like a disco or like a rave or something happening
here or some sort of something fun going on yeah yeah this is my kind of Maharajan City
Palace I don't think they're maharaja's but they're still royalty here so I think
used to be Maharajan but not anymore I think I'm pretty sure one of the guys who lived
at the Fort that we were at earlier the Amber Fort moved like the capital from Amer the
like area where the Amber Fort is yeah to Jaipur and created this as the capital of
Rajasthan and he created this Palace because they needed a new place to live in the capital
of Rajasthan ah pretty sure makes sense I mean it's still a pretty nice palace it's
not on top of the hill but I love the Disco added to it so so far spending a day out in
Jaipur is just all about architecture and I will say it does not get old it's so beautiful
here and I feel like every place we've gone to like offer something a little different
and it just keeps getting like more and more beautiful so it's very easy to spend a good
day here okay guys Nicole and I found our most favorite place in this Palace yet all
right ready
the Palace Cafe they sell lattes for 50 rupees [Music]
Here's a water as well we need so many liquids
okay we got our coffees time to reflect a little bit what do you think about the city
Palace I think it's really really nice but I'd say this is like the best of it yeah there
weren't as many like cool looking rooms that I thought there would be and if there were it looks
like you have to pay like quite additional yeah a lot of extra money to go into the extra
sort of like private rooms so it's more tickets so for us it's not worth it but I think if
you only have time to do either this or the fort 100 percent I'd say the fort we were
at this morning I'd say the fort.
Amber fort was way better um there's just like more to look at more to wander around
you feel like your ticket's like a little bit more worth it but all together I think
this has been an awesome day to explore Jaipur it is such a such a beautiful city it's such
a beautiful city there is so much to look at here and I just feel like the architecture
truly is something else this actually wraps up our time doing the Golden Triangle which
is the Delhi Agra Jaipur tourist special that many people do our next video is gonna be
us heading over to Varanasi but thank you guys so much for watching this video make
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