Day 5- Wednesday 5th March- Jaipur, India

We started the day relatively late, meeting KP downstairs at 9:30. We set off straight away for our journey to Jaipur, the bottom left corner of the golden triangle. The journey was uneventful but passed nice and quickly, probably because we were so used to the long car journeys.
We arrived at our hotel in Jaipur at 2pm. A man in some kind of random military uniform was at the door and ran down to greet us and help us with our baggage. We checked in and then checked out our room, which was a very nice surprise. We had quite a large room with a beautiful view over Jaipur and the Amber Fort, a decent TV, good bathroom facilities and an elegantly painted floral ceiling. As I looked out at the view, I noticed loads of monkeys climbing all over the wall of peoples houses, just below our window. Several of the monkeys had tiny babies clinging to them which looked like Gollum. I watched them for a while and made noises so they would look at me.
I got spotted by a group of kids in the streets below. The kids here love us! They always wave and shout hello. Eventually, a group of about ten of them had gathered and were waving to us. Whenever we walked away from the window, they would shout 'HALLO!' until we came back.
We connected Sarah's iPod to the TV and watched some Green Wing before meeting KP for a quick tour around Jaipur. He took us to a huge lake with a palace right in the middle of it and then a small textiles factory where we were shown how prints for clothes were made. Upstairs in the factory, we were shown a large range of pashminas, throws and silk paintings. Between us, we ended up buying seven pashminas and two painting, damn cheap!
Back at the hotel we had a dinner of room service chips before heading up to the roof to watch the sun set over the Amber fort. A wedding party was going on in the street, so we had some background music while we stargazed and had drinks. KP was staggering around with a friend, drinking vodka. When we got bored, we went back to our room and were asleep by 11.