City Palace Jaipur

Trip Start Sep 01, 2009
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Trip End Dec 27, 2009


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Flag of India  , Rajasthan,
Saturday, October 31, 2009

We next visited the City Palace in Jaipur. It is still the residence of his Highness the Maharaja of Jaipur. His section is off limits, otherwise I would have stopped by for s spot of tea. The sitting Maharaja is a Polo chum of Prince Charles of England.

We walked throught the busy Jaipur streets to the palace. Portions of it are now a museum. The flag is now five colors, representing one additional color after the Jaipur government conquered the Kabul Afganistan kingdom many years ago. They now wave 5 colored flags. In addition, when the Maharaja is in town, they wave one additional miniture flag above the state flag to signify that the His Higjhness the Maharaja of Jaipur is in town.

Once inside, we viewed the various courtyards, and saw two emese silver jugs. These were produced by an early Maharaja in oder to carry water from the river Ganges to England and back, when the Raja was to view the coronation of King Charles the 7th (i believe). Each jug required 14,000 silver coins for the metal, and two years to produce. They each carried 900 gallons of water. There was apparently a wheeled structure under them to facilitate moving them from around on theire trip from India to England and back!
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