Now all I need is a flying carpet ride!

The next day, after our Taj Mahal adventure, was spent in Jaipur.  This day was very wonderful to me because I got to ride an elephant! Check that off my bucket list!  Our tour guide for the day came to pick us up from our hotel in the morning, and first took us to the Amber Fort.  The Amber Fort was quite an amazing place to see.  When we first got there we got in a line of people by the entrance to walk up onto a platform where we could hop onto an elephant!  

Amber Fort

Sonia! 

McKenna and I got to ride an elephant named Sonia.  We got to ride the elephant all the way up the hill and into the first main entrance of the Amber Fort.  I was totally spazing out with happiness for getting to ride an elephant, it was just so cool!  Within 24 hours I got to ride a camel and an elephant now I just need to ride a flying carpet and I could be like Aladdin!  Anyways, the elephant pulled up to a platform for us to jump off onto and from there we instantly started taking tons of pictures (mostly of the elephants).  Our tour guide would take us through each main square within the fort and tell us a little bit about it, but all we really wanted to do was take pictures and explore.  Our tour guide was honestly really annoying, he would have been great if he kept his mouth shut haha.  5% of what he would tell us about actually was related to the Amber Fort, the rest of what came out of his mouth was money money money, and how much he loves money and worships money, and blah blah blah!  We had lots of fun though going off on our own to explore inside the fort.  This place is seriously SO COOL! It’s really just like a giant labyrinth!  There are so many passageways all over inside the walls; we had to be careful not to get completely lost.  

Main Entrance

The halls just kept going and going!

My dream is to one day play a giant hide and seek game here, it would be so fun!  One of the places we went to in the fort, there were some people gathered taking pictures.  We went to see what was going on, and we saw these two little monkeys that people were feeding and taking pictures of.  They were so cute!  So we joined in, taking pictures and throwing them food.  I got a fun video of one grabbing food out of my hand, it was so cute!  So that made me super happy, and it was just a lot of fun running around and exploring with the time we had in the fort.  On our way out we stopped to watch a snake charmer!  That was pretty dang cool to watch.

Snake Charmer!

From there our super awesome (not) tour guide took us to a jewelry store, because we are American girls (which according to our tour guide means we have loads of money to spend constantly throughout the day) so he, being so thoughtful, took us to a jewelry store for us to spend our money.  Well unfortunately it really was a nice store that had tons of gorgeous jewelry.  So we looked around at all the pretty jewelry for a while, apparently Jaipur is known for its gems?  So we all ended up finding some jewelry that we wanted (that darn tour guide!).  After that we went and saw the Jal Mahal, it’s this pretty palace that sits in the middle of a lake in Jaipur.  

The Jal Mahal

It was cool to see!  He then wanted to drive us all around the city, but we were so tired and hungry… and sick of him, so we had him take us back to the hotel.