Hunterwali in Rajasthan

While Mumbai was being pounded with rain, Chrys and I were boiling in the heat of Rajasthan.
On our second night in Jaipur we visited a place called Chokhi Dhani for dinner. It's an artificial village where they have puppet and magic shows, dance performances, sale of locally made artefacts and a dinner of rajasthani dishes. There we were being taken around the little village when we chanced upon some guys dressed up as tribals holding sticks and drums. One of them walked up to us and handed Chrys and me a stick and said "Jhingalala"... no further explanations required. We took the sticks and danced in a circle to drum beats.
This was one of the high points of our visit to Rajasthan. Of course the Jai Mahal Palace deserves a mention. It's beautiful with Mughal styled gardens and wild peacocks, parrots and squirrels having a fun time in them. It also helped that it rained while we there and the peacocks went crazy crying out "Meow meow" (yeah that's what peacocks sound like).
I didn't quite enjoy the two minute camel ride in Chokhi Dhani, but Chrys was whooping away plucking leaves from the high branches of nearby trees just coz he could!
We saw a LOT of forts, palaces, museums and what nots. We also visited Jodhpur and Jaisalmer which are small cities in comparison to Jaipur. This was probably not a good time to visit Rajasthan but we were blessed with pouring rain on one of the days and that cooled the temperatures a bit. I still cribbed about the heat and took repeated showers depleting the precious water resources of that region.
On two occasions I almost beat up guys for taking pictures of me while they were pretending to click some museum piece or something. The first time Chrys made a half-hearted attempt to come to my rescue and the second time he just stood around like a spectator while I fought with the guy. Maybe he thinks my Jhansi-ki-rani act doesn't need extras. I wish I had a hunter with which I could whip those perverts and accidentally strike Chrys too with it.