Elephants and Palaces

We made our way to Jaipur today and stopped in Amber (pronounced "ahhm-bear") to visit the palace there. To get up to the palace, which is set up in the hills, we rode elephants! Weston and I shared an elephant, and were only a little nervous when the "driver" kept telling us to 'scoot back for balance." We were certain death loomed on numerous occasions. Needless to say, we all survived and enjoyed a tour of the palace there atop Amber. There was an interesting wall (12 miles long) surrounding the palace much like the Great Wall of China. In the group shot, you can see us in front of the gate of the palace. While the Taj Mahal had stone inlaid into the marble, here the gate was decorated with frescoes-meaning they plastered the gate and painted designs.