India's Old Town - Jaipur

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Jaipur is an ancient city in northern India, 250 km southwest of New Delhi. Jaipur and Delhi and Agra is known as India's tour of the "Golden Triangle."

Old Town

Coach enter Jaipur, we are surprised to stretch pink. Look around, a neatly arranged buildings, pink walls, pink windows, pink dome, and even street shops, stalls and even toilets are also painted pink.

300 years ago, the genius of kings and Savai'i · Jay Singh II of Jaipur built plan. 1867, to welcome the arrival of Britain's Prince of Wales, when the kings and ordered all of the city side of the street the house painted pink. It was reported that there are green, yellow and pink and other colors several candidates, finally chose pink, the color of Rajputs language, pink represents hospitable. So far, the housing must be regularly retained stucco surface street legal provisions.

Car on the street was very slow because of traffic here too confusing: cars, motorcycles, tractors, three rickshaws, bullock carts, camels, bicycles, children will fall entirely on the road, walking slowly even those wearing painted elephants and cows are revered as gods join in the fun on the road.

"This is a zoo?" We asked.

"This really is an animal park, because the Hindu pantheism claims that everything has divinity, not killing. Therefore, any animal can be more than the road, even on the highway while on the road, any means of transport should allow animals. This is another feature of Jaipur. "guide explains.

"Wind Palace" Jaipur is the city's 18th century architectural marvel. Qi Qi in the clever design on it that many windows, so any place within the palace Jie wind can be blown. If the case of wind hit, as long as all the windows and doors open, the wind would be right to wear around windows, without the palace fallen, so this wind of the palace, containing survive meaning. In the film "Wind Palace", the light is so good, the only shortcoming is the front of the narrow roads, built-up, can not find a suitable shooting, I took a full-frame camera with a 16mm lens, though already shoot panoramic, but it is not law-abiding, "Wind of the Palace." Not to the field before, I have been on the "Palace of the Wind" patterning postcard satisfied, then understood the limitations are due to the venue.

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Amber Fort

Amber Fort is located 11 km from Jaipur city in the mountains, the original khaki Oaxaca maharaja capital. Initially, it is just as castle fortress, in 1592 was the expansion of the gorgeous majestic Amber Fort.


Visit the Amber Fort, there are three options: walk, ride an elephant, jeep. Walking though tired but time-consuming, although an exciting elephant ride, but dozens of people at a time up the scheduling difficulties, so the tour guide arranged for us four men traveling in a jeep on the Amber Fort. She also repeatedly stated that if tourists want to experience the feeling of riding an elephant, you can go after her re-arrangements.


Amber Fort composed by a number of palaces, using milky white, yellow, red and white four kinds of stone was built. Have met with public hall, met with the Minister of the hall, the royal residence courtyard. Stenciling throughout the palace are carved color, window frames doors to art graphics configuration, the hall also embedded with glass walls, in the reflection of the sun, shining everywhere. The "Palace of Mirrors" in the mosaic approach lenses and colored stones, and the Taj Mahal is exactly the same. Just a little candle lit, you can reflect thousand points of light, called the world's unique spectacle. No wonder people say this is "the world's most magnificent stained glass palace."


Guide commanded, must be followed by visiting the Amber Fort, she accidentally left behind lost. Because the royal fortress Habitat structure is very interesting: the ground floor is divided into twelve houses, each lived a princess. Built twelve separate staircase leading to the concubine's room, bedroom in the middle, but separated by a wall princess, can not communicate, you can not know which concubine of the king to the room to go. The King is on the second floor balcony at a glance, everything under control. I do not believe at first, still its own way, see more film, more in mind, the result is really strayed princess palace "Lost" do not "know return", finally guided personally looking for, it makes me rejoin.

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探秘印度粉紅之城——齋浦爾

齋浦爾是印度北部的一座古城，在新德里西南250公里處。 齋浦爾和德里及阿格拉被稱為印度旅遊的“金三角”。

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旅遊大巴進入齋浦爾，我們為滿目粉紅感到驚奇。 環顧四周，一座座建築整齊排列，粉紅色的牆，粉紅色的窗，粉紅色的穹頂，就連街邊小店、小攤甚至廁所也都塗成了粉紅色。

300年前，天才王公薩瓦伊·傑伊·辛格二世規劃修建了齋浦爾。 1867年，為歡迎英國威爾斯王子的到來，當時的王公下令將城中所有房子臨街的一面刷成粉紅色。 據說當時有綠、黃和粉紅等好幾種顏色候選，最後還是選擇了粉紅色，在拉其普特人的色彩語言中，粉紅代表著好客。 至今，還保留著面街房屋必須定期粉刷的法律規定。

車在街道上開得很慢，因為這裡的交通實在太混亂了：汽車、摩托車、拖拉機、三輪人力車、牛車、駱駝車、自行車，一股腦兒全集中在大道上，慢吞吞走著，甚至那身披彩繪的大象和被尊為神的牛也在馬路上湊熱鬧。

“這是動物園？”我們問。

“這裡真的是動物樂園，因為印度教主張泛神論，認為萬物都有神性，不能殺生。因此，任何動物都可以上馬路，甚至可以上高速公路。而在路上，任何交通工具都要讓動物。這是齋浦爾的另一個特色。”導遊解釋道。

齋浦爾城內的“風之宮殿”是18世紀中葉的建築奇蹟。 奇就奇在它那眾多窗戶的巧妙的設計，使得宮殿內任何地方皆有風可吹入。 倘若遇上狂風吹襲，只要將窗門全部開啟，大風就會對穿前後窗戶，而不致將宮殿吹倒，所以這座風之宮殿，含有屹立不倒的意思。 在拍“風之宮殿”時，光線等都很好，唯一的缺憾是前面道路狹窄，建築密集，找不到合適的拍攝點，我帶了全畫幅相機配16mm鏡頭，雖已拍出全景，但卻不是中規中矩的“風之宮殿”。 沒到實地前，我一直對明信片上的“風之宮殿”構圖不滿意，此時才明白了是場地局限所致。