On one side of the courtyard is a tall seven-storey building in the Laraqiput style, which is the private residence of the current Maharaja Bhwani Singh, and is not open to the public. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 There are four very beautiful gates in the info courtyard, which represent the four seasons: the Peacock Gate for autumn and the Lotus Gate for summer.

The green gate represents spring, and the rose gate represents winter. Among them, the Peacock Gate is the most beautiful. Interior view of the Grand Chamber of the City Palace of the City Palace of Jaipur. Although there are no windows, the interior is illuminated by numerous large crystal chandeliers. In the center of the hall is a red carpet, with two seats for the prince and his wife, and high stilts and high backs.

There is a palm fan on each side of the red carpet, and a long row of red VIP chairs on either side of the red carpet. On the walls around the hall hang large oil portraits of the former vassal kings of Jaipur and the current Grand Dukes. Jaipur City Palace, south of the city palace, exited the palace gate guarded by two stone elephants and entered the courtyard of the welcoming palace.

This is actually the main entrance of the city palace to the south. After hurriedly ending the visit to the City Palace, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu walked out of the Stone Elephant Gate and hurried to the last attraction in today's plan - the Palace of the Wind. Jaipur Wind PalaceWind Palace Wind Palace is located in the heart of the old city of Jaipur.

The city palace is about 400 meters southeast of the north side of an intersection in a straight line. A landmark building in Jaipur, built in 1799. This is a very peculiar building, the image of a pink "big shell" with "a hundred holes and thousands of windows". There are many windows, and the wind blows through the windows, which can ensure that the "big shells" will not be blown down.

Hence the name "Palace of the Winds". The original purpose of the construction of the Palace of the Wind was to allow the harem women under the boudoir system to watch the outside world through the window when they were bored, and to avoid being seen by men other than their husbands. Go around to the back of the palace, you can go in and visit, climb upstairs, and you can overlook the opposite city.

There is a shop opposite the Palace of the Winds, where you can go up to the top to take a panoramic view of the Palace of the Winds. Jaipur's Wind Palace, Wind Palace, Wind Palace, Wind Palace, this strange-looking pink "big shell" stands on the corner of the street. From the street frontage, you can see the huge orange-red wall on the front of the building.

Densely covered with countless honeycomb windows, some of which are inlaid with multicolored glass. The window frames and panes are carved out of red sandstone, protruding from the wall, like a half-octagonal pavilion. Although the walls are thin and large, and the center of gravity is unstable, due to the large number of windows, when the wind blows, it will disperse through the windows, so it will not blow the building down, so it is named the Palace of the Wind.

Whenever the moon is in the sky, the whole palace is shining, so this place is also called "Moon Palace". It is more like a wall than a palace, and although it has doors and windows, it is very thin and thin, and the depth is only one room. When Xueluo saw it for the first time, it really felt like a thin shell, or an open folding fan.

Even think of the skirt of the dancer. But it was indeed a palace, and it seemed to be a harem - because the people mentioned in the materials mentioned in the information were the princesses who could stand behind the palace windows and look at the street view. If this was really a part of the royal palace in the past, then it should have been connected to the city palace, but now it looks disconnected, and the distance between them is three or four hundred meters.

Since the wall is facing east, it will be more gorgeous to take pictures in the morning when the sun is shining. The photo of the snow falling was taken in the late afternoon, so it lacks a glossy finish. You can buy a ticket to go in and see the palace above, 50, and the entrance is on the back. As you can see from this photo, the back of the Palace of the Winds is not red.

Instead, it is painted a pale yellow. This is the entrance. Climb the stairs to the first level of the courtyard. The courtyard on the first floor is not big and there is nothing to see. There is a doorway opening in front of you, and after entering, you can go up the stairs to the second level of the courtyard. Above the doorway are five stone statues of Hindu gods: in the center is Brahma, the god of creation among the three main Hindu gods.

Legend has it that Brahma was born from a lotus flower that grew out of Vishnu's navel, and it is also said that he hatched from a golden egg that floated in the chaotic state before the birth of the universe, and the golden egg gradually evolved into the universe. After the birth of Brahma, he began to create all things in the world, so the status of Brahma is a bit like the Pangu of our dragon kingdom.

The image is usually four-headed and four-armed, and the four hands hold the Vedic India's oldest religious scriptures, scepters, lotus flowers, rosaries, bowls, etc. His mount is a swan, and he sometimes sits on a lotus throne. As the god of creation among the three main Hindu gods, Brahma is the least worshipped, and there are very few Hindu temples dedicated to him.

The famous Erawan Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand is Brahma, and the incense is vigorous. In the middle on the left is Shiva, the god of destruction among the three main gods of Hinduism. It has the dual character of reproduction and destruction, creation and destruction, and is widely and supremely worshipped. The image is often depicted as three-eyed and four-handed, and the third eye on his forehead can spew out divine fire and burn everything to ashes, and the waist is surrounded by tiger skin.

Wearing a crescent moon on his head, a long snake around his neck, and holding a trident, axe, tambourine, club, etc. on all four arms, the mount is a white bull Nandy. It is precisely because the ox is the mount of the Hindu god that there is a custom of not eating beef in India, and the second on the left is the Ganesha, a very popular god in Hinduism, regarded as the god of wealth, wisdom, destiny, etc.

He is the son of Shiva and is under the three main gods. The image is of an elephant-headed human body, four arms, an ivory, riding a mouse, and Vishnu in the right center, the protector of the three main gods of Hinduism. There are four arms, and the four hands are holding lotus flowers, conch shells, scepters, etc., sitting on lotus flowers, or lying on the body of Ananta, a thousand-headed serpent.

His mount is the golden-winged bird Gruda, and the second on the right is Indra, also known as Shakti. In Hinduism, there are three main gods who are also often mentioned, who are responsible for thunder and lightning and battle. The mount is a white elephant. Above the doorway is a stone statue of Brahma sitting on a lotus flower, the god of creation among the three main gods of Hinduism.

I love the pattern and the pastel-colored door. The pattern is a green plant, which makes people look at it and feel calm. On the second floor of the courtyard, you can see the back of the verandahs with those stained windows. There are also stained windows in the middle, but they are nowhere near as many as on the front. There are staircases within the building to reach the top floor.

On the third floor of the courtyard, the thickness of the walled house with many windows can already be seen. There are also two floors above, both of which are corridors. The pavilion-style building above the doorway of the palace wall on the west side looks like a hat, and there is a corridor on the back and a flower window. This style of architecture is common in royal palaces and temples in North India, and I don't know how to call it.

Looking behind the window wall, it looks like this. There are corridors, small pavilions, and many lookout windows. At the back of the top floor, there is a small open-air observation deck, where you can see the City Palace and the Jianta Manta Observatory in the distance, and you can see the Tiger Fort from the top of the hill overlooking the city.

Observation deck on the top floor. The inside of the window wall. This is the thickest spot in the middle, and it gradually narrows to the sides. You will be greeted by a stained glass window that you can see from below. More than 100 years ago, the princesses and palace ladies stood in such a corridor and pushed open the windows to look at the scenery below. The color door on the back of the corridor.

The setting sun shines through the multicolored glass and floods the room with colored light, like the effect of the colored backlights seen on the stage. Interior view of the back courtyard seen through the flower window. The small lookout hole on the window is just enough to hold a person's face, and standing in front of it can block the body from peeking outside. Through the lookout hole in the window wall, you can see the street view opposite.

It is not easy to take pictures of the Palace of the Wind from the road below, because the space is narrow, and the camera angle may not be enough to fit such a huge building, but there is a small shop opposite, and the owner will agree to let you go upstairs to shoot, and that position is the most suitable place to take the panoramic view of the Palace of the Wind. Moreover, you buy his stuff or not, the owner does not particularly care, of course, buy a little.

He will have a happy sense of reciprocation in his heart. The street view facing the front wall of the Jaipur Wind Palace, the Wind Palace, and the direction is to the east, so the morning light will be better. There is a large courtyard of ancient buildings opposite, the building looks a bit like a royal palace building, maybe a hundred years ago, this building, together with the palace of the wind at the foot, the royal observatory behind it.

Until the city palace group behind, the whole area is a large palace area of the earth vassal king, or the princess can run to the colorful windows of the palace of the wind at Xueluo Station to watch the market life and the city scenery. The street extension on the south side of the temple shows that the street is flanked by commercial areas.

This is the heart of the small market street in the center of the old town, and the main street and the alleys inside are full of shops. As an important city on the Silk Road in India, Jaipur gave birth to a thriving distribution center for small commodities. Handmade silks, cotton prints and dyes, Kashmiri cashmere scarves, tapestry carpets, sari garments and other textiles are all excellent.

Camel leather shoes, essential oils, incense, black tea and other Indian goods fill the streets, and there are many local handicrafts such as gemstones, diamonds, ivory products, lacquerware, enamel products, gold and silver ware, which flow to India and other parts of the world. Jaipur Palace of the Winds, Palace of the Winds, Palace of the Winds, stands on an open-air viewing platform on the top floor.

You can see the entire western side of Jaipur City. The Kanta Manta Observatory and the Cupola Tower stand on the top floor of the Palace of the Winds and look west, and the triangular yellow building outside the west wall of the Palace of the Winds is the Janta Manta Observatory, which is also a view of Jaipur. The two raised buildings can be seen at the right rear of the observatory.

One is the City Palace, which I visited just an hour ago, and the other is the tall tower on the far left side of the observatory, called the Cupola, which is also a century-old building. Tiger Fort, Jaipur, is on the top deck of the Palace of Winds, looking out to the top of a hill on the right near the edge of the city.

You can see the Tiger Fort in the distance, which Xueluo and Liu Jingshu visited in the morning. The location is so good that you can see the whole city of Jaipur with the golden sunset. As far as the eye can see along the hillside to the right, you can faintly see the towering watchtower of Fort Ceygar, and Amber Fort is in the col below the watchtower.

Standing on the top observation platform of the Palace of the Wind and looking at the right side of Tiger Fort, you can see a small castle-like building painted with a swastika logo on a hill, which is a royal tomb that can be visited, and the inscription inside is very beautiful.

Buried in the tomb are several princes of the Kachiwaha kingdom, including Jay Singh II, who founded and ruled the Jaipur region, including Amber City, where Amber Fort is located, and Padapsingh and Madosingh II who preceded him. Jay Singer II's marble-domed memorial is the most beautiful.

The Jenta Manta Observatory and the Cupola Tower Janta Manta Observatory are located on the south side of the City Palace and the west side of the Palace of the Winds. The entrance is opposite the entrance to the City Palace. The work of Maharaja Jai Singh II, an astronomy enthusiast, built this sizable observatory next to the new palace when he moved the royal palace from Amber Fort in Amber to Jaipur for astronomical observations.

Each instrument in the observatory is made of marble, and there are daily gauges, theodolites, meridians, etc. Jai Singh II built five Janta Manta Observatory in Jaipur, Delhi, Varanasi, etc., with Jaipur being the largest. In 2010, the Janta Manta Observatory was selected as a World Heritage Site.

The Jaipur Scenic Pass is applicable. The tower is 35 meters high. Built by Jay Singh's son, Eswari, it is a minaret. For $20 you can climb the spiral staircase to the top of the tower for a panoramic view of Jaipur's Old Town. In the builder of the Tower of Cupola, there is a tragic story.

Later, fearful of the Maratha army, Eswari had a snake bite him to death in the Moon Temple of the royal palace, and his 21 wives and concubines were subsequently buried en masse at his funeral. , Four views in one day: Tiger Fort, Amber Fort, City Palace, Wind Palace, plus the Water Palace visited on the way, successfully completed today's visit plan.

It's all damn Indian trains that take away another precious half-day of sightseeing. However, "the moon is cloudy and sunny", "this matter is difficult to complete", and it is already immeasurable to be able to go to these key places. Finish work and head back to the hotel to take this evening's train to the next stop: Jaiselmer, the golden city of the Four Colors City.

I'm looking forward to it. There was plenty of time for it – three full days. I hope that tonight's train will not be delayed again, at least less. Indian trains are really more unbearable than Indian liars, garbage everywhere, and unpalatable food! Hello, train god! On the way back to the hotel, buy a handful of vegetables and go back to cook somen noodles.

It's not all about traveling on a double-decker bus. Jaipur Jaipur Railway Station departs the hotel at 11pm 80pm and takes a tuk tuk to Jaipur Railway Station. The train number booked by Xueluo and Liu Jingshu is 14659. Departing from Delhi and passing through Jaipur, the train ends at the destination of Xueluo and Liu Jingshu – Jaiselmer.

The class of carriages is a normal non-air-conditioned sleeper car, with one side berth, one middle berth, and two inner berths. The distance is 613 km. Passengers in the regular non-air-conditioned carriages of Jaipur Railway Station are not allowed to enter the passenger waiting room and can only rest and wait on the platform. Indians have long been accustomed to sleeping on the floor with a blanket.