Jaipur - Rushing through the pink city

Due to our a bit longer stays in Udaipur and Pushkar, we had just one day left to visit Jaipur, before we would finish our tour in Agra. Patricia, Agus and I have become a bit tired of the fast traveling rhythm, spending so many hours on the road -- inhaling vast amounts of pollution and being shaken through by the pumps and holes on the streets -- and sharing our time with a driver who sometimes did not obey our wishes and drove us to expensive places where he probably received commission.
We went to visit the Amber Fort, a huge and impressive complex outside the city and found it to our surprise with completely empty rooms, no old furniture, no jewels, no weapons, the only thing which obviously still was in use were the old latrines, as we could smell ;)
Back to the city we met a very sympathetic tuck tuck-driver (kind of an exception, as they normally are quite insupportable) and agreed to let him show us round some places. We were stunned to see the illuminated "Water palace" -- a palace which was built into a lake by back-holding the water with a dam and later flooding it -- at night. Of course this nice driver also drove us to some "handicraft factories" where we would have had the chance to buy textiles and other stuff for a special price -- more than the double than on the normal street markets. It might be true that all Europeans are rich in comparison to the local population, but sometimes it can get a bit tyring to be treated as a walking wallet ;) How ever, we enjoyed our short stay here before hitting the Indian road again... the last level of our personal Paris-Dakar Ralley ;)