Jaipur India

Many travellers recommended seeing Jaipur and the lonely planet described it as a beautilful city, altough we must admit the 'fantastic shopping' was the pull. First night I didnt get much sleep being sick, but still ventured out to see the city. The old city is surrounded by walls and every building is painted pink, ie 'the pink city', it has a very desert feel with dry hills surrounding and loads of camels and elephants in the main streets. This might sound nice, i dont know but we were pretty disappointed. We kept waiting for a street to open to a huge bazaar where we could buy loads of cheap jewellry/ bags/ shoes etc but there were just scattered shops with owners shouting at us to buy buy buy! We did do a little shopping but it is so frustrating to be white girls in crowds, after we were both grabbed we had just had enough and left the city for a nice dinner (glad to be out). Next morning we got a bus to Dehli.
We only passed through Dehli but it looked a lot more modern than the cities we had seen and sort of hoped we had left time to look around here, oh well. We went to get our 26 hr train back to Kolkata to find we had been upgraded to first class (woohoo!)) which usually double cost, this meant A/C, sheets and pillows and a better class of people to be stuck with.
I know I sound negative, but it is just a full on place. I try to understand that many are in poverty and we have money, but overall I was very happy to be on the plane out. We still feel a little sick, but have got life back in us now we back in Thailand, a beautiful place!!!!! Tonight we are getting a bus and ferry to Koh Phangan island, where we will relax- snorkel swim and bake!!!!! and also be there for a half moon beach party. So happy again :)