Waking up bright and early at the spritely hour of 8am I packed up my bag and taxied it to the bus station.
With mere minutes to go until it departed, I managed to get onto the correct bus headed for Jaipur. This would cost ₨730 and take six hours. When I arrived onto the bus, I discovered that it was rather roomy and cosy! With plush chairs and footrest, who could ask for more? Along the route there were a great many interesting things: Lots of men squashed onto scooters, millions of people walking along the side of the motorway, cows, sheep, even elephants!
Halfway along the route the bus stopped for a lunch break, the driver explaining that we had 20 minutes. However, by the time everyone had gone to the loo and then got a table, there really wasn’t a lot of time to actually eat lunch, which resulted in me packing half of it into a napkin and eating the rest on the bus!
For the
second half of the journey an incredibly strange film was playing, made even
stranger by the fact that I couldn’t decipher what was being said. It was
called ‘1920’ but this could mean anything!? It seemed to centre on a couple
who began the film running away together and almost dying, and then they move
to a really large house in the countryside, which actually looked
very English! The lady is spooked by the house and eventually
ends up possessed!? That is about all that I got from it!?
Upon arrival to Jaipur everyone getting off of the bus was hassled by auto
rickshaw drivers, after a while I gave up arguing and just got a lift round to
the hotel.
After dumping the bags, I went for a walk around Jaipur. As it was raining I don’t think Jaipur was at its best, and there was flooding everywhere! I did, however, see pigs…roaming wild and free around the road.
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