Jaipur, popularly known as the Pink City, was founded in 1727 AD by one of the greatest rulers of the Kachhawaha clan, the astronomer king Sawai Jai Singh. The pink color was used at the time of making to create an impression of red sandstone buildings of Mughal cities - and repainted in 1876, during the visit of the Prince of Wales. The city is best explored on foot and the adventurous visitor willing to go into the inner lanes can discover a whole new world not visible to the tourist-in-a-hurry.

Though this all sounds very interesting...my personal opinion:  Jaipur was a dump!  The one thing that made the entire 8 hour trip (4 hours each way) worth it, was visiting Jaigarh Fort(see those pictures!)  If I had to do it all over again, I would have taken a train ride down to Jaipur, the got a taxi to take me up to Jaigarh Fort, and spent the entire day up there, then take the taxi back to the train station and return to Delhi.  But I'd stay away from the city!  I felt like I was in inner city New York.

Museum.  We didn't go inside, because we wanted to see the great Pink City, what a disappointment!

This is part of the Pink City, notice the camel on the right side.

More of the Pink City.  Most of these pictures were taken from the car, because we didn't dare get out.

When we first pulled into Jaipur this guy offered to be our tour guide for 40 Rupees for the entire day (approximately 80 cents).  He took us all over the city for about 2 and a half hours to a bunch of dirty sites, that we didn't dare get out of the car to see.  And in addition to that, he didn't speak hardly any English.  After 2 and a half hours we decided that he was probably just taking us for a ride since the taxi driver was getting paid per kilometer, so we dumped him and headed back toward Delhi.  On the way back we came across Jaigarh Fort, and the whole day was worth it!