Our plans were waylaid when the bus was prevented from going too far. Dev quickly hired tuk tuks for us all to take us to the India Gate. We walked around this and then started walking to the Palace. Half way there we were told we coulnd't go because of security. Standing here, I took a movie looking between the India gate and the palace, equidistance apart. They were barely visible to us. This shows the severity of the smog in this city.
This time our tuk tuks had to find the bus. Ours of course wanted to be there first, so it passed all the others who knew where we were going. We ended up circling the round-about a couple times and finally found everyone. It doesn't seem to matter that the bicycle rickshaw, tuk tuk, taxi, or bus is already paid and has really no incentive to rush. They all want to win! I eventually got used to this style of driving and learned to close my eyes when heading straight on to traffic, and imminent crash. This was also the day we did a Metro rail ride & getting a firsthand experience of the most preferred mode of transport in the city of Delhi.
In the afternoon we flew to Jaipur and checked into our hotel, The Ramada Hotel.
Jaipur airport
Rhesus monkey who greeted us
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