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Jal Mahal, Jaipur (India) at Sunset

Posted on November 21, 2008


Jal Mahal at Sunset, Jaipur, India

It was a very pleasant Saturday evening (15/11/2008) when Sunil (my younger nephew, also referred to as Brat 2 in many of my posts, his elder brother is Brat 1) and I made a stop at the Jal Mahal in Jaipur. I was quite smitten with the atmosphere (minus the plastic littered at the shore and deliberately avoided while clicking the picture), there were flowers on the shrubs, reflection of the palace in the water. A lot of people walking around in the wide open space ,with the lake and the palace on one side and street food on the other. The weather was quite nice too, not too cold and definitely not hot. I am quite happy the way photographs have turned out on this day.

Later, we were having tea at a roadside shop and I was showing the pictures on the camera display to our auto drivers Raju and Gopi (I managed to acquire two auto drivers but that is another story). After a while I could sense they were just being polite and had no real interest in watching the pictures. I asked then, “Aap log roz wahi jagah dekh kar bore ho gaye ho?” (You guys are bored stiff with watching the same spots almost daily?). How heartily they agreed and that was the end of my photo display session with them.

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6 thoughts on “Jal Mahal, Jaipur (India) at Sunset”

  1. Priyank says:
    November 22, 2008 at 3:33 am

    Hi Mridula, Nice peaceful picture (lekin surya kidhar hai or was it cloudy?) and someday I’d like to visit Rajasthan too 🙂

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  2. Anil P says:
    November 22, 2008 at 6:30 am

    What is it that the people in the picture seem to be throwing?

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  3. Mridula says:
    November 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Priyank, I was not a big fan of Jaipur earlier but this time around I liked the trip a lot. I too would try and venture more into Rajasthan, after all, it is next door. And yes, it was cloudy. But it was sunset time.Anil, they are throwing bird feed to the pigeons in the distance.

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  4. indicaspecies says:
    November 23, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Yes, a fabulous shot.:)

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  5. Shrinidhi Hande says:
    November 24, 2008 at 5:32 am

    nice pic but I see no sun in sunset 🙁

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  6. Mridula says:
    November 24, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks Celine.Shrinidhi, I should have said sunset time!

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I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started this blog in 2005. It has been an amazing ride. I have visited 33 countries till date! I have worked with many tourism boards and prominent travel companies. My blog was featured on the BBC and the Guardian.

I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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