On the hills of Jaipur

The doctor sent by the insurance company, Amber Fort - a Bollywood movie, the monkey temple Galtaji, shopping

My mom had a terrible cough in the past few days. She had pain in the throat since the camel safari, so I decided to see how our insurance company works. I called an emergency number and asked them to sent a doctor. This was even yesterday, but only now something started to happen, and eventually a doctor came to see mom.
He treated the mom's illness very seriously and gave her a lot of medicines and said it is allergy to dust and dirt, very common among tourists.

After the doctor's visit, we decided to go sightseeing, and hence we paid for full day rickshaw again. Rickshaw driver from yesterday saw us from afar, and we could not get rid of him, so he was our driver for today too. We went to see Jal Mahal - a palace on water. You can not go inside, but we took a lot of pictures from outside. Then we went to Amber Fort. It stands outside of Jaipur on large rocky hills. When we arrived there, it turned out that there a Bollywood movie was just being shot, but I could not recognize the main actor. In the courtyard of the fort, all elephants were gathered, some dancers were dancing but not particularly energetic. There was a stunt (replacement) of the main character and he danced well. He twisted his legs amazingly, and unfortunately, this was too much for the actor to imitate. The crowd of observers standing on the walls gazed with admiration and attention.

The fort is huge, but it seems empty. As one imagines, that each even very small area was covered with a meticulous, rich decoration, one wonders why to leave such a bare skeleton. This is as it is with the dinosaurs - we watch their bones, and we can only admire their gigantic proportions, but we have basically no idea how they looked like in truth, what color they had, or did they have any fur or feathers, etc.

Tired we went to a cafe, where we were warned not to eat at the tables on the terrace, because the monkeys will take our food. Already a curious one had come closer as I took photos.

A bit tired with the scorching sun, we returned to our rickshaw. On the way back, the driver took us to the next store with clothes, where he finally bought a suit (Salwar Kameez) for Mom. Then we collected my sari. In the same shop I bought beautiful camel-leather shoes ( Maharani-style) and another pair with traditional jaipurian decoration.

Then we went to Galtaji temple, which is popularly known as a monkey temple, because a lot of monkeys live there and bother tourists. This is a really strange impression, so many monkeys here and there, you can give them a banana, and if not, they would try to take something from you.

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