OK, here is part 4 of my recent India trip. Part 1 being
here, part 2
here, and part 3
here.
Welcome to Rajasthan! Welcome to Jaipur, the Pink City!
Despite having been to India numerous times, I have never before been to the north. Having spent a little over a week in Mumbai and Karnataka, I flew from Hubli to Jaipur in the northern state of Rajasthan. Rajasthan is a magical, vibrant and fascinating state, and I have wanted to go there for a long time. Anybody that knows anything about India would say that just visiting Jaipur, the largest and capital city of the state, does not do justice to the wonders of Rajasthan. However time constraints didn’t allow for more, so next time I will make the effort to visit more of Rajasthan.
But Jaipur is great. It is know as the Pink City due to the pink colour of many of the buildings. It is very different from the south, the people are different, the food is different etc. That said, it is still the same old India! Except you see camels walking up and down the street!
The reason I was in Jaipur was that I was with my dad who was tracking down a man named Hussein Kagzi in the suburb is Sanganer, the last remaining Arab descendent Muslim papermaker of a specific tradition. We succeded in finding and meeting him, so I have included a few photo’s of that.