We have now left Delhi and traveled into the Indian state of Rajasthan. We are in the Jaipur District of Rajasthan. We stopped for lunch at the Chomu Palace. We were in the town of Chomu when we turned off the main road and ended up on a small winding dirt road. The area looked like an area where we didn’t want to be. We rounded another corner and arrived at the Chomu Palace, just in time for lunch. This palace is 300 years old and a palace by anyone’s standards. Today, it is a hotel and restaurant. In earlier days, it was the palace of the younger brother of the King of Rajasthan. It is opulent with marble, carved wood and sandstone, grand chandeliers, courtyards, gardens, pools and surrounded by a massive wall with a massive gate to gain entry to the palace.

You can see our group filing into the main palace for lunch in the first photo.

The second photo isn’t a very good photo, but it’s where we ate lunch. I was trying to give a sense of the room and its history and decorations. It was a great room and they served us a fifteen course meal which was very good, as was the service.

After lunch, they gave us a tour of the palace. I will only include one photo from the many that I shot. The photo was described to us as the “women’s quarters”. It was very ornate and very comfortable. It seems to me that the king’s took very good care of their women – and judging by the size of their quarters, he must have had quite a few ladies at his beckon call.