Tag: Jaipur

  • An Incredible India Evening!

    An Incredible India Evening!

    Wow!  That’s all I can say!  What an amazing time we had reliving our adventures in Incredible India! Planning for this evening was lots of fun.  As for every evening we host, we like to share the various foods we tried during our travels, and the flavours of India are particularly tasty.  We always practice preparing…

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  • A Fond Farewell to India

    A Fond Farewell to India

    A virtual assault on the senses, India has been an interesting, incredible, and incomparable experience for all of us. From the moment we landed in New Delhi, we had the stark realization that we were in a land like no other. For the past 46 days we have seen and done a lot, and have…

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  • Barefoot Learning

    Barefoot Learning

    We have really enjoyed our time in Jaipur; it’s a lovely city with some really nice tourist attractions that Oliver, Mik and Zoe have shared. Lucky for us, while staying at the Jaipur Friendly Villa, our hosts Shveta and Kul shared with us a remarkable story about a college that has transformed a nearby village,…

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  • Shop Around the Block!

    Shop Around the Block!

    An incredible form of art we saw while in Jaipur was block printing. This is where wooden stamps are used to make designs on textiles. To learn more about this art form, we went to the Anokhi museum which had information on the history and recent uses of block painting. The museum is in an…

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  • Elephantastic!

    Elephantastic!

    Elephants+ fantastic= Elefantastic! In Jaipur, a lot of things are fantastic, especially in the Jaipur Elephant Village! We went to the Jaipur Elephant Village to experience an Asian elephant’s afternoon at a program called Elefantastic.  When we arrived at the the Elephant Village, we were greeted by Rahul, the founder of the program. Elefantastic was…

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