Amber Fort part one...elephants !

our second stop yesterday was at the Amber Fort...Amber, Amer was the capital of Rajasthan up until 1727 when it was moved to Jaipur....Amber is about 13 km north of Jaipur...

I think this is the tourist attraction number one if visiting Jaipur...so if you visit get here early in the morning..like we did !.. I have so many pictures I want to show you so I decided to make it into at least two parts...and since the connection is REALLY SLOW I have to do it..otherwise I'll be sitting in front of the computer the whole day and I don't want to do that...

early morning haze surrounding the fort...

elephants waiting to take the tourists to up to the fort along the cobbled pathway...they only work in the morning because later on it gets to hot...so between 9 and 12 something( this is still India) you need to be here if you want to have a ride...we where there around 8 and they where already at it so....

look at that beauty and what she has done to here trunk...

while we where waiting I looked up and saw this caravan of elephants and it was  just so cool...

proud mahouts...what I didn't know was that second elephant from the left got to be ours...

she greeted us....what a cutie....and our mahout wasn't bad looking either...

up up we rode....from side to side...kind of difficult o take any pictures....the view was just so beautiful..

how do you get off an elephant....of course they have built a wall.....but it would be cool to get off using the trunk....oh well....I have got to try that also....the list keeps getting longer an longer off things i want to do....

someone was looking at all the tourists...hmm...wonder if they have anything to eat ?

isn't she pretty ? her name was Sharik....by the way all the elephants working here are females of course...

they are such cool animals and to get to touch the trunk....all warm....it's just an amazing feeling...

this was one of the smaller ones and she was adorable with here ears flapping....

have a great day dear reader....I'm off to eat the breakfast buffé....best thing of the day when staying at a hotel..isn't it? and then we're off on new adventures...next post will be about the fort itself....not sure if I will post it today though....we'll see....