Agra to Jaipur 25th January
A few people on our tour have been experiencing ‘tummy
problems’ and one poor lady was so ill she had to have 2 injections and was too
ill to travel to Jaipur today.
After breakfast, we travelled by road to Fatepur Sikri, a perfectly
preserved sandstone city, this was built from scratch and then abandoned in the
16th century, not long after it was built. Watch out Milton Keynes! After that we carried on to Bharatpur and had
an open air lunch at The Bagh hotel. The
road which led to the hotel was little more than a dirt track with the worst
pot holes we’ve ever seen. After lunch
we continued our journey and after an hour stopped for a comfort break. At this point the dirt track road extracted
its revenge. Our coach had a punctured
rear tyre which the driver had to change.
Most of the men on the trip stood round offering advice to the driver on
how best to change the wheel!
We eventually set off to complete our journey to Jaipur and
arrived at the Fairmont Hotel to a Maharaja & Maharani welcome, complete
with an escort of 2 uniformed riders on white horses, 2 trumpeters, a gong and
2 concubines casting rose petals at our feet!
The Fairmont is a new & very sumptuously decorated (over
the top) hotel where no expense has been spared. However it was a pity that the
service standards and detail didn’t stand up to the same scrutiny. A forty five minute wait for lunch after
ordering was considered a result and the dining room was so cold that you
needed a fleece, while the outside temperature was in the 80s. The water in the room was connected the wrong
way round so that you got hot out of the cold tap. But hey ho it all makes for a good story.
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