Amber Palace sits on a hill just outside of Jaipur. The palace is golden, not amber, and got its name through a complicated game of telephone we haven't sufficient memory to rehearse.
We do know that it's a short elephant ride to the Palace entrance (and that we will likely not take up riding elephants as a past-time).
Amber Palace is part-palace, part-fort. It reminded us of Karak, in Jordan -- definitely built to withstand a marauding army, but also designed with the pleasures of life in mind. And maybe a touch of Abu Dhabi as well -- there was a beautiful garden on a man-made island in a man-made lake for the lucky residents to enjoy.
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