Thursday, 4th March 2010
After visiting the Hawa Mahal, the tour took us into the old city through one of the 9 ancient walls. The first stop within the old city was the Jantar Mantar, or the Observatory, built by Maharaja Sai Singh 11. He had also built a similar but smaller observatory in the Mughal capital of Delhi.
The complex consists of 14 geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking star locations as the earth orbits around the sun.
The largest instrument, the Samrat Yantra ( world's largest sundial) plotted time of the day to the accuracy of 2 seconds of local Jaipur time.
Samrat Yantra, the world's largest sundial...After about one hour at the Observatory, the group was next taken to visit the City Palace of Jaipur. This complex was also built by Maharaja Sawan Jai Singh 11. It covers a wide area divided into gardens, courtyards and buildings. A part of the complex is still todat the residence of the former Maharaja family.
The complex comprises several buildings like the Chandra Mahal, The Mubarak Mahal, the Mukut Mahal, the Maharani Palace and the Shri Govind Dev Temple as well as the City palace Museum.
The Diwan-I-Khas is a hall for private audience. It has 2 large sterling silver vessels on display - reputedly the world's largest sterling silver vessel).
pakdokter's partner with her 2 professional Nikon SLR cameras..one for zoom shots and one for wide angle photography....
the Diwan-I-Khas Hall 
after a long day of tours, the group were taken to a craft centre
the Diwan-I-Khas Hall where 2 large sterling silver vessels are on display
the group had dinner that night at this hall
with special permission from the Palace....
after a long day of tours, the group were taken to a craft centrewhere there were artisans at work with textiles and gemstones..
the showroom gave pakdokter a respite
while the rest went shopping for jewelerry and textiles..
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