Varanasi
After Jaipur, we visited Orccha, a small town that used to be the capital of the Bundela rajas and so has quite a few palaces. Some of the palace gates were protected by spikes to discourage war elephants from ramming …
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Bollywood Barfi
We went to the Raj Mandir Theatre in Jaipur. It is one of the most popular places to see movies in India. India’s film industry regularly produces double the number of films in a year that Hollywood does and is …
Karauli and Jaipur
After Agra, we went to Karauli, a small town in Rajasthan. We stayed at a heritage palace built for the maharaja’s family in the mid 1930s. It is still owned by the former maharajas and they have opened it to …