Ochre City - Jaipur

Unless I am colour blind, Jaipur is not a pink city. It is more like ochre. And this is enforced by law within the walled city. This all round ochre gives a dull and drab look; it is not at all pretty. Jaipur is a planned city; most roads that I saw ran dead straight and at right angles to each other.
Most of Jaipur's sights can be seen in one day. The quintessential Jaipur will be as follows:
Amer Fort - 2 hours
Jaigad Fort - 1 hour
Nahargad Fort - 30 minutes
Hawa Mahal - 45 minutes
Jantar Mantar - 45 minutes
City Palace - 2 hours
Sound and Light show at Amer - 1 hour
Travel time - 3 hours
Total - 11 hours

My impressions of each of the above sites along with some pictures will follow in the coming days.

But right now I want to describe something which I find rather disturbing. Jaipur is overrun by white skinned tourists and nowhere is this more manifest than at the City Palace. Ugly male staffers wearing red turbans plead and beg to pose with white women, hoping to be tipped in return. It made me cringe. More often than not, the women refused to oblige. History tells us that the proud Rajputs gave away their beautiful women to Mughal emperors and chieftains in order to preserve their fiefdom.
Indians and foreigners are charged differentially at almost every site. For the City Palace, the entrance ticket for an Indian tourist is Rs75 with an additional still camera fee of Rs75, whereas foreigners are charged Rs300, inclusive of the still camera fee. Implicit in this is the condescending anachronistic assumption that the foreign tourist will always carry a camera, and the Indian tourist more often will not.
City Palace is not the place where an Indian can hold his head high.