The banquet hall where the breakfast served can only be described as royal; tall ceiling, huge wall carpets and paintings greeted us. (I don't remember if they there was some music too). The food for the breakfast was a generous variety of both Indian and western materials.
We started the day by first visiting Hawa Mahal. The word Hawa in Hindi refers to wind; thus, the wind palace. We only saw it from a distance, from across the street; I wished we could examine it from a little closer vantage point.
Jantar Mantar
City Palace
Amber Fort
By the time we finished our tour in early afternoon, our driver suspected something was not quite right in the car; he wanted to make the Agency aware of the problem and take the car to a garage for possible fixing; luckily, we were able to find an alternate car. My children were longing to eat some dosa and we finished our dinner at a South Indian restaurant in the main part of the city.
In the evening, before we retired for the night, we prepared our luggage to be ready for an early flight to Goa, via Mumbai.
The primary purpose of this blog is to provide a summary and a viewpoint of the tour for interested parties. The blog postings are arranged so that the blogs appear in chronological order. The itinerary for the tour is largely my creation, with the idea of exposing my children to important and interesting aspects of India. I got the help of a Travel Agency in India in setting up the airline and hotel reservations, and the agency's name shall remain anonymous in this blog.
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