25th September, 1990
Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan, is known as the Pink City. Founded by Sawai Jai Singh II in 1727, it is set out in grid-fashion within rosy fortified walls. Along the main bazaar, between the exuberant russet-coloured buildings, weaves an incredible jumble of animals and vehicles. Elephants, antiquated Ambassador cars, scooters and bicycles contend with carts pulled by camels, bullocks, horses, or donkeys. Tractor-rickshaws, scooter-rickshaws and bicycle-rickshaws weave between dirty buses with passengers inside and piled aloft. Behind every truck, a painted sign reads ‘PLEASE HORN’. No-one needs any encouragement. Horn, they do. Incessantly.
From Freedom of the Skies
Glimpses of the journey:
- Around the world
- Crossing the Atlantic
- Saint Louis, Senegal
- Bubaque, Guiné-Bissau
- Timbuktu, Mali
- Cottars’ Camp, Kenya
- Virungas National Park, Zaire
- Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe
- Sossusvlei, Namíbia
- Lumbo, Mozambique
- Antananarivo Madagascar
- Adis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Misfat, Omã
- Jaipur, India
- Himalaia, Nepal
- Mae Hong Son, Thailand
- Bario, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Borobodur, Java, Indonesia
- Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya
- Gimbat, Australia
- Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
- Hurricane in Apia, Western Samoa
- Anaa, Tuamotu, Polynesia
- Easter Island, Chile
- Crossing the Andes, Chile-Argentina
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
