On my birthday we were in Jaipur, a city with a population of 6 million. First, we went to the wind palace. Which is an optical illusion, it looks bigger than it really is. It was built so that royal and noble family ladies could watch the king's procession because they were not allowed to show their faces. That was really cool because when we saw it again from another view it looked like a big rectangle when it really wasn't.
From there we went to an observatory where they have the biggest sun dial in the world. I only understood how half of the instruments worked. The ones I did understand I thought were really interesting. The big sun dial is accurate up to 2 seconds.
We then went to Jaigarh Fort and the Tiger Fort. Jaipur is a walled city and the forts are located in different places along the wall. There was a great view from both forts. From there we went to Amber Palace that was once occupied by the Maharaja and his family. It was beautiful. One part of it was mostly made up of tiny mirrors and no two patterns of tiny pieces of mirrors were the same. There was also a tunnel that the royal family could use to get to Jaigarh Fort in case of an attack. There were tons of small bats in the places where the wall met the ceiling. I think they might have been vampire bats. Outside the tunnel we saw some snake charmers with cobras. It was interesting to listen to the music the charmers were playing. One of the cobras started to get a little cocky so the charmer put the lid back on its bin. I don't know why they don't just push the lid back off.
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