Jaipur-Pink City

We flew into Jaipur a few days ago. Traveling in India is challenging, given the overpopulation one needs to watch their purse at all times and we remove all of our jewelry. My grandma was nervous about our excursion so we got a cell phone so anyone could reach us at any time. Both the domestic terminal at Mumbai and Jaipur were impressive. Unfortunately, the international terminal at Mumbai needs to be renovated as it is not a good first impression of the city/country.  We were warned that it was much colder in Jaipur, however, it was hard to imagine if it's 90 degress in Mumbai that it cold enough for a jacket.   It is mostly desert so it gets really hot during the day and cools off quite a bit in the evenings. Jaipur is in Rajastan, which is north of Mumbai and has a population of 3.4 million. Jaipur is the second best planned city in the world, Paris is the first. Jaipur is known as the pink city given all the buildings/walls were painted pink. There are nine main gates to enter the city, if all gates are closed, no one can enter the city. It is a popular tourist destination and we went during the peak season so we met people from all over the world during our tour. We visited many of the forts and palaces, the most impressive was Amber Palace where many Bollywood movies are filmed.  The other cool palace was the Jal Mahal, which is a palace in the water.  The other interesting spot was Jantar Mantar, which was designed by one of the kings who was very knowledgeable in astrology/mathematics. He build devices which allowed one to tell time, date, zodiac sign based on where the sun's shadow fell!