Visit to Amber palace.

Today I went to Amer Palace.  This was the original palace of the Maharajah and his twelve wives.

Before we got there we stopped for some photos and a snake charmer gave me a fright when he sat down next to us and got out his snake.

To get to the palace we rode an elephant up the long path.

When we got off the elephant  we had a guide who was the grandson of one of the last soldiers to live there.
The two forts that we have already been to were protecting this palace and the wall over the hills.  When we got off the elephant we went into what used to be the stables and then went to a look out after that.  This is the palace the abandoned because of water shortage.
There is a very beautiful mirror palace that the maharajah built for his wives,  He shipped in the glass from belgium and bought over some Persian people who built it.  You can see their persian carpet designs in the walls and ceilings.  They crushed gem stones and used them in a gum paste as paint.  So the paintings shimmer and have never been retouched. The  Maharajah wanted his wives to always be able to see stars.  The would sit with candles under the mirror and glass and see thousands of tiny flame reflections like stars.

Then dad and me walked the secret path from the palace up the hill to the fort.  This was an escape route incase the palace got attacked.  Everyone could get up the hill to safety in the forts.