India

This palace is a gorgeous piece of ancient architecture - a wonderland of enchanting courtyards, gardens, intricate archways covering exquisite hallways, flowing serpentine stairways, floral patterns adorning the walls, some…

Street performers pretend to hypnotize a snake into coming out of a basket to sway to music played by a pungi. In truth, snakes can't hear music, they're just rising…

Also called the palace of winds, this place looked like a honeycomb to me. It's five floor exterior is covered with 953 windows all containing intricate latticework. The intent of…

This step well was near the beautiful Savitri Temple which is in the background. A stepwell is essentially a pond with a corridor of steps that descend to the water…

this man had a story - wish I knew what it was. He sat at the entrance of a step well asking for money in exchange for a photograph. The…

Amer Fort has four courtyards - the main one - Jaleb Chowk- is where the king's soldiers assembled and paraded themselves around - now elephants take their place with riders…

Jaleb Chowk is the main courtyard of the fort which is entered through a gorgeous gateway with artwork of the elephant god, Lord Ganesha. It's absolutely stunning with a stairway…

These gals are actually employed by the fort to clean it at night but are allowed to "moonlight" during the day by posing as royals who might have lived at…

There are two magnificent buildings in the 3rd courtyard. On the left is the palace of mirrors where victories were celebrated. On the right is the hall of pleasure (one…

built with pale yellow and pink sandstone and white marble. Like someone wanted to be reminded of the pastels of spring year 'round....