The ONLY thing I hate about Jaipur...

Indiamad · May 12th, 2007, 19:06

The ONLY thing I hate about Jaipur.....any guesses?

PeakXV · May 12th, 2007, 19:43

I love these positive slanted threads.

Now what could it be ......

It couldn't be the Elephant Festival or Hawa Mahal or City Palace or your accomodation in the Penthouse at the Rambagh Palace or Jantar Mantar or Amber Palace or lack of touts and hawkers or lack of Cows or ......

I give up what?

capt_mahajan · May 12th, 2007, 19:44

touts?

jaat · May 12th, 2007, 20:19

the old pink city

ananda2193 · May 12th, 2007, 20:22

I didn't like Jaipur when I was there, but I hate the scam artists there.

kidsan · May 12th, 2007, 20:34

well, it certainly wasnt the lassis from lassi wallah...worth the trip just for one of these!!

but it may well be the rickshaw drivers? the nearest i have ever got to violence in india

Indiamad · May 12th, 2007, 21:49

Top marks to Kidsan

I love most things about Jaipur (especially those lassi's!) but those rickshaw drivers drive me nuts

I've just spent a few days in Bani Park (have also stayed previously) where they seem to be the worst of all. You only need to poke your big toe out the gate of your hotel and they jump off their a*ses like jack-in-the-boxes and come running at you flailing their arms about like vultures

When you finally do give in to one of them and ask for the meter to be used, it's NEVER working, so you ask the price to point A or B. Then of course it's, "As you like madam". Well, I'd really like to pay R50 to travel a few kilometres cos I've been ripped off enough already today thanks (but being the polite girl I am, I don't say that). So instead, we settle on R200 for 1 hour of me running between internet cafe and a few shops while he has a snooze in the back seat.

Then out comes the testimonials book..."Which country Madam? Oh, Australia!! Where? Sydney? I have best friend in Sydney".... news flash mate, Sydney is not the ONLY city in Australia!! Seems the 'best friend' is someone who spent 3 hours in his rickshaw and wrote 3 lines about him. I wanted to write 3 lines about him too....but I resisted

Then (if female) you're subjected to hearing the merits of being a fair, tall foreigner whilst getting the goo goo eyes in the rear view mirror...."I had many foreign girlfriends, GOOD friends, one from Brussels, one from Germany, one from America" hint hint, yeah mate, just pleeease shut the **** up and take me to the lassie whallah (again, I don't say this, just give a half hearted smile between gritted teeth and try in vain to change the subject, whilst flashing my fake wedding ring at him).

Then finally you go to pay and he NEVER has any change!! You can't wait to escape but he's reeling off 20 sites you MUST see tommorrow (never mind that you've seen them already). After much ear bashing you reluctantly agree that you 'may' use him tomorrow but don't dare set a specified 'program' or time to meet him.

You spend the next morning in hiding, peering through the hotel gates waiting to make an escape. When you think it's safe you make a quick dash across the road to use the ATM but alas he and his friends appear from out of nowhere!! You say you need a bit of a walk around the block to get some 'exercise'.....you speed up to try and shake them off, you duck into a convenience store and spend 20 minutes buying a cake of soap, when they've finally got the message, you REALLY want that ride into town... if you're lucky you come across "PK" waiting patiently on a corner somewhere...he's cool, one of the very few!

I hate them so much, maybe I was one in a previous life and now I have to learn to love them

PS. I also hate "Chocki flippin Dhani".

noflylist · May 12th, 2007, 23:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by kidsan

well, it certainly wasnt the lassis from lassi wallah...worth the trip just for one of these!!

Agreed, but

Our so called guide was more interested in teaching my wife the social etiquettes a woman should have!

kidsan · May 12th, 2007, 23:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by noflylist

Our so called guide was more interested in teaching my wife the social etiquettes a woman should have!

what, the social etiquette of lassi-drinking?? no slurping please madam

noflylist · May 12th, 2007, 23:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by kidsan

what, the social etiquette of lassi-drinking?? no slurping please madam

a good one

noflylist · May 13th, 2007, 03:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by kidsan

what, the social etiquette of lassi-drinking?? no slurping please madam

actually at that time an incident of Sati had happened. Guide and my wife had heated debate on the merits... He wanted the women to know their place in society!

...by the way same guide pointed us to an out of way authentic, cheap Rajasthani restaurant for a thali, where the owner was only too delighted to feed us.

Lugubert · May 13th, 2007, 06:32

I would have guessed pollution. Delhi, Amritsar, Varanasi, even Kolkata - comparatively clean air according to the reactions of my system.

Sadanand Kamath · May 13th, 2007, 10:07

Poor upkeep of Hawa Mahal?

Sadanand

jaat · May 13th, 2007, 11:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Indiamad

Top marks to Kidsan

I love most things about Jaipur (especially those lassi's!) but those rickshaw drivers drive me nuts

I've just spent a few days in Bani Park (have also stayed previously) where they seem to be the worst of all. You only need to poke your big toe out the gate of your hotel and they jump off their a*ses like jack-in-the-boxes and come running at you flailing their arms about like vultures

When you finally do give in to one of them and ask for the meter to be used, it's NEVER working, so you ask the price to point A or B. Then of course it's, "As you like madam". Well, I'd really like to pay R50 to travel a few kilometres cos I've been ripped off enough already today thanks (but being the polite girl I am, I don't say that). So instead, we settle on R200 for 1 hour of me running between internet cafe and a few shops while he has a snooze in the back seat.

Then out comes the testimonials book..."Which country Madam? Oh, Australia!! Where? Sydney? I have best friend in Sydney".... news flash mate, Sydney is not the ONLY city in Australia!! Seems the 'best friend' is someone who spent 3 hours in his rickshaw and wrote 3 lines about him. I wanted to write 3 lines about him too....but I resisted

Then (if female) you're subjected to hearing the merits of being a fair, tall foreigner whilst getting the goo goo eyes in the rear view mirror...."I had many foreign girlfriends, GOOD friends, one from Brussels, one from Germany, one from America" hint hint, yeah mate, just pleeease shut the **** up and take me to the lassie whallah (again, I don't say this, just give a half hearted smile between gritted teeth and try in vain to change the subject, whilst flashing my fake wedding ring at him).

Then finally you go to pay and he NEVER has any change!! You can't wait to escape but he's reeling off 20 sites you MUST see tommorrow (never mind that you've seen them already). After much ear bashing you reluctantly agree that you 'may' use him tomorrow but don't dare set a specified 'program' or time to meet him.

You spend the next morning in hiding, peering through the hotel gates waiting to make an escape. When you think it's safe you make a quick dash across the road to use the ATM but alas he and his friends appear from out of nowhere!! You say you need a bit of a walk around the block to get some 'exercise'.....you speed up to try and shake them off, you duck into a convenience store and spend 20 minutes buying a cake of soap, when they've finally got the message, you REALLY want that ride into town... if you're lucky you come across "PK" waiting patiently on a corner somewhere...he's cool, one of the very few!

I hate them so much, maybe I was one in a previous life and now I have to learn to love them

PS. I also hate "Chocki flippin Dhani".

why just single out jaipur?It happens pretty much everywhere in
india,funny post though.

Baba · May 13th, 2007, 12:11

As I plan to visit Jaipur (and certainly won't have trouble finding the rickshaw wallahs): where is the famous lassi wallah?

May 12th, 2007, 19:06	#1
Indiamad Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 175	The ONLY thing I hate about Jaipur... The ONLY thing I hate about Jaipur.....any guesses? __________________ The brave may die young but the cautious don't live at all.

May 12th, 2007, 19:43	#2
PeakXV Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap Posts: 3,783	I love these positive slanted threads. Now what could it be ...... It couldn't be the Elephant Festival or Hawa Mahal or City Palace or your accomodation in the Penthouse at the Rambagh Palace or Jantar Mantar or Amber Palace or lack of touts and hawkers or lack of Cows or ...... I give up what? __________________ We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started ...and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

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May 12th, 2007, 20:19	#4
jaat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: gurgaon Posts: 118	the old pink city

May 12th, 2007, 20:22	#5
ananda2193 Maha Guru Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: you essay Posts: 1,288	I didn't like Jaipur when I was there, but I hate the scam artists there.

May 12th, 2007, 20:34	#6
kidsan Maha Guru Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: north wales, UK Posts: 667	well, it certainly wasnt the lassis from lassi wallah...worth the trip just for one of these!! but it may well be the rickshaw drivers? the nearest i have ever got to violence in india

May 12th, 2007, 21:49	#7
Indiamad Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 175	Top marks to Kidsan I love most things about Jaipur (especially those lassi's!) but those rickshaw drivers drive me nuts I've just spent a few days in Bani Park (have also stayed previously) where they seem to be the worst of all. You only need to poke your big toe out the gate of your hotel and they jump off their ases like jack-in-the-boxes and come running at you flailing their arms about like vultures When you finally do give in to one of them and ask for the meter to be used, it's NEVER working, so you ask the price to point A or B. Then of course it's, "As you like madam". Well, I'd really like to pay R50 to travel a few kilometres cos I've been ripped off enough already today thanks (but being the polite girl I am, I don't say that). So instead, we settle on R200 for 1 hour of me running between internet cafe and a few shops while he has a snooze in the back seat. Then out comes the testimonials book..."Which country Madam? Oh, Australia!! Where? Sydney? I have best friend in Sydney".... news flash mate, Sydney is not the ONLY city in Australia!! Seems the 'best friend' is someone who spent 3 hours in his rickshaw and wrote 3 lines about him. I wanted to write 3 lines about him too....but I resisted Then (if female) you're subjected to hearing the merits of being a fair, tall foreigner whilst getting the goo goo eyes in the rear view mirror...."I had many foreign girlfriends, GOOD friends, one from Brussels, one from Germany, one from America" hint hint, yeah mate, just pleeease shut the *** up and take me to the lassie whallah (again, I don't say this, just give a half hearted smile between gritted teeth and try in vain to change the subject, whilst flashing my fake wedding ring at him). Then finally you go to pay and he NEVER has any change!! You can't wait to escape but he's reeling off 20 sites you MUST see tommorrow (never mind that you've seen them already). After much ear bashing you reluctantly agree that you 'may' use him tomorrow but don't dare set a specified 'program' or time to meet him. You spend the next morning in hiding, peering through the hotel gates waiting to make an escape. When you think it's safe you make a quick dash across the road to use the ATM but alas he and his friends appear from out of nowhere!! You say you need a bit of a walk around the block to get some 'exercise'.....you speed up to try and shake them off, you duck into a convenience store and spend 20 minutes buying a cake of soap, when they've finally got the message, you REALLY want that ride into town... if you're lucky you come across "PK" waiting patiently on a corner somewhere...he's cool, one of the very few! I hate them so much, maybe I was one in a previous life and now I have to learn to love them PS. I also hate "Chocki flippin Dhani".

May 13th, 2007, 06:32	#12
Lugubert Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 287	I would have guessed pollution. Delhi, Amritsar, Varanasi, even Kolkata - comparatively clean air according to the reactions of my system.

May 13th, 2007, 10:07	#13
Sadanand Kamath Maha Guru Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 750	Poor upkeep of Hawa Mahal? Sadanand

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