Jaipur

Jaipur was our next stop during our trip to India. Another fort was awaiting. This time the Amber Fort, full of details! From outside it looked simple, bare. As I approached the courtyard at the ground level I noticed the same features from outside. The richness started as soon as we reached the top level of the fort. The details are tremendous, colourful. The mixture of Hindu and Islam architectures was even more noticeable. Unbelievable to realise the amount of work put into the Hall of Victory with its multi mirrored ceiling.

Landscape of Amber Fort in Jaipur — General view of Amber Fort

Amber Fort inside with elephants — Painted elephants

Jaipur Amber fort with moutains — Amber dome and mountains

arch details of Amber Fort — Details of the fort

Amber Fort in Jaipur with its details in painting — Details of the fort

Painting details of Amber Fort — Painting details in Amber fort

Lady in Amber Fort — Balancing her basket

Amber Fort and mirrored room — Multi mirrored room

Market and streets of the city

We spent a good afternoon on the streets of Jaipur admiring the market, the goods, the people and the city! Part of it has large roads and it is well wooded with more green around. It is a very busy city where traffic is chaotic too and where mini taxis, motorbikes, cows and more can be seen all at once on the streets. There are beautiful temples in between the shops in the market with signs asking politely to take shoes off. Seeing the old city painted in pink (terra cotta) as a welcome to the Duque of England made me think of the kind nature of Indian people thoughts.

Amber fort food and flowers — Food and flowers

Jaipur yellow temple — Temple on the streets of Jaipur

Snake charmer on the streets of Jaipur — Snake charmer

Food on the streets of Jaipur — Colours of Food

Jaipur street and taxis — Jaipur streets

Food markets in Jaipur — Food stall in Jaipur

Patricia dos Santos Paton Patricia dos Santos Paton is a digital artist based in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Patricia is a passionate about human behaviour and is a soul seeker. Being born in a third world country, Brazil, she experienced seeing lots of social inequality and this may have influenced her work. She is always in search for truthful and profound feelings. Patricia is engulfed by the essence of real life but she loves the surreal, the mystical and the mystery of mind and consequently of life. Her work is a visual story book about real life or about the surreal.