Vaasanti Niwas: Our Hotel In Jaipur

After the Unicef orientation, we headed by bus to Jaipur, India. As a nice welcome to the unpredictability of India, our bus got into an accident and we had to schlep all of our luggage into the 110 degree weather and wait for a new bus to come. When we got to Jaipur, there was no one to pick us up...but when we finally made it to our guest house, all was forgotten! It was much nicer than we had expected. We each had our own room with a private bathroom, hot water, air conditioning and a TV that had cable (sometimes...). As far as I coudl tell, we were pretty much the only ones staying there. Sometimes other guests would come, mainly other people affiliated with Unicef, but they would leave after a night or two.

Right next door to our hotel was a construction site. The construction workers lived on site and it was a little bit odd sometimes because my room was closest to the construction site and I worried they could see in my window. My curtains were kept closed! We were in a great neighborhood, although you can't tell fromthis picture. We could walk to lots of cute things and there was a grocery story about a half block away. The Unicef office was only two doors down.

My room was the one on the second story, far left. We loved the guest house when we first got there, but we loved it even more after we spent time living in the rural areas! It was like heaven after our other accomodations...