After visiting the school, we took a trip to the Temple of the Sun God at Galta - a few kilometers outside Jaipur.
It is also known as the Monkey Temple - because it's crawling with monkeys.
The temple was first built about 1200 years ago, over a natural spring on the side of a mountain overlooking a gorge. The spring is believed to produce water as holy as the water from the Ganges River. The temple was built on the site where a sage came to meditate.
We visited the temple on an auspicious day - that night would be a full moon. Thus, hordes of pilgrims were there, mostly bathing in the temple. It was quite a scene. People were purifying themselves in the holy water with gusto. And the colors - saris of every hue hanging everywhere, it was kalaidoscopic.
Next - night train to Bikaner - frontier town near Pakistan border - for a 2-day camel safari and then a visit to a temple with holy rats!
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