#fourthday

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀❄ MIMATO WEEK 4º DAY 🌵

The fourth chapter is ready!

Decisions...decisions. ..get out of the "same-same" Aim for the positive.

The fourth day of the new year is almost at its end. So, the question here is: Is everything the “same-same” as last year and the previous years? Are the new year’s resolutions out the window by now and “we will do it at the end of this year?” Are your goals…Goal? What is that? Some kind of football game? Are your goals in the same predicament as your new year’s resolutions? A new year’s…

Fourth day, the busiest day, hungry day, efficient day, tiring day. Our cab was booked at 09:30 am and we left our hotel right on time. In Jaipur, Ola-taxi provides you flexibility to select a day trip which includes traveling to the forts and back within a day. It is one of the most comfortable and economic modes of traveling in and around Jaipur, even better than the taxi stands or travel agents.

We reached our 1st destination – “Amber fort” after travel for nearly an hour. Purchased the required tickets and entered a grand verandah paving way to enter the main palace. There was an option of traveling on elephants from 3 kms before the entry gate which we left to save time and reached just in front of gate on taxi itself. This palace is the most beautiful and ancient out of the three in line. We spent a lot of time here and enjoyed all picturesque views. After spending around 2 hours and getting compliments on our attire from a couple of Hungarian people, we descended to the parking area to hop on the cab to go to next destination – “Jaigarh fort”.

While coming out of amber fort, there was a side way to travel by foot to Jaigarh fort and it would have been upslope walk on an unmaintained trek. It was one of the best decisions to not go there by foot and take the taxi we already had. This gave us time to rest, protect ourselves from exhausting and most of all, after putting all that effort to see the worst of all three palaces. Even though strategically, this fort holds its importance on the war front, it was not picturesque at all. It was like a plateau with India’s biggest cannon at the top. We spent a whole lot of 20 minutes in this fort before we started our journey to “Nahargarh fort”, which is also known as “Rang de Basanti fort” – named after a famous Bollywood film.

On the way to Nahargarh fort, we stopped by a bridge to enjoy the view of Jal mahal Palace from up the hill and click some pictures. We continued to Nahargarh fort to find ourselves 2 school groups ahead of us in the ticket line. They were courteous enough to let us take the tickets and move inside that saved a lot of time for us. This was the first place where we enjoyed puppet show in Rajasthan since the start of trip. Soon after we went to the well which was famous because of the before-mentioned reason of Bollywood film. We took a long stroll of the boundary of this fort to find ourselves the edge of cliff and clicked few good pictures there and walked back to board our taxi following the complete boundary view of this fort. By this time, we were famished. We headed to hotel to take a small break, freshen ourselves and get ready to eat.

Per our research before traveling, Sri Moturam Prasadam was one of a kind, vegetarian restaurant which serves good stomach-full food. But our hunger was far from quenched. As we reached and seated at Jawahar circle restaurant, we realized, it was just a franchise and did not serve the same food as was served by the flagship restaurant. By this time, we had also left our Ola Taxi. We were in no mood to compromise on one meal we were having this day and so, we boarded another taxi and took our way to flagship restaurant and it was all worth it. Incidentally, the flagship restaurant was much nearer to our hotel.