Honeymoon travel to India - Day 5 – Fatehpur Sikri and Jaipur

Right after breakfast we started our trip from Agra to Jaipur. After a one hour drive we reached our first site of the day – Fatehpur Sikri. This city is another world heritage site and is a whole ancient city which is now preserved as an open air museum. It is where some of the moghuls used to live a couple of hundred years ago. It is very well maintained and has beautiful red stone buildings with different styles.

- Fatehpur Sikri -

- Fatehpur Sikri -
- Fatehpur Sikri -
- The biggest gate of the world at Fatehpur Sikri (the one in the back) -

From Fatehpur Sikri we continued our way towards Jaipur. Whenever we have these long transfer trips we are alone with our very kind driver Sunil. This is the only time when we can privately speak to the driver. Whenever we have a tour guide with us we can only speak with the tour guide. The driver is only driving the car. This is a really strange situation for us because we are not used to these kind of hierarchical relationships between the people. The tour guide is on a higher level than the driver is. This means for us that we have to decide which parts of the schedule we want to do with our tour guide and which parts we want to do with the driver only. Whenever we go for shopping with the tour guide the price is higher than when we go with the driver alone. This is because the shops are different. Finally, when travelling from one city to another without tour guide we discuss with the driver when and where to meet without the tour guide because this cannot be discussed while the tour guide is in the car.

- Public transport between Agra and Jaipur -

-Watch your neighbour passenger at the speed of 70 km/h -

Our driver did one extra site with us which is on the way from Agra to Jaipur. This site is called Chand Bawri and is a very nice step well. One of the hidden secrets nearby the big highway street. Because our driver is only the driver we had to get a local guide who explained the site to us. These guys are easy to find because they will find you once you get off the car. Tourist cars have special car plates which makes it easy to know who is a tourist.

- Watch your steps at Chand Bawri -

- Chand Bawri stage area and queen's rooms -

- Chand Bawri -

Afterwards we reached Jaipur. This is a very beautiful and clean city compared to Agra or Delhi. After the long drive of more than 8 hours for 230 km and three stops (Fatehpur Sikri, Lunch and Chand Bawri) we had the rest of the day for leisure in our hotel. We enjoyed this very nice palace hotel and had a very nice dinner on the roof top restaurant together with Indian dancers and singers.

- Enter your suite Miss Macaroni - Oh sorry, correct is Miss Maharani (which is the name of our suite) -

- hotel room suite -