I hate Jaipur. It should be removed from the Lonely Planet. Or the earth. Either one. It should have a giant bubble over top of it covered in hazard signs. Poisonous air, poisonous people.

In the course of a day and a half I was...

Stalked by an autorickshaw driver, offered exhorbanant room rates, eventually found a dirty hovel in my price range, insulted, and then insulted again.

AND the victim of an attempted mugging. By twenty street children. Gypsy children, I guess. I have bruises on the entire lower half of my body from where they were pinching and scratching me. I was screaming in Hindi but no one would help me. I was walking on a fairly main road but it was after dark. I eventually was able to run (in flip flops) but it was scary. They almost got my backpack off of me, but I wasn`t going to hit a kid. Though everyone says that`s what I should have done.

Next I get in a rickshaw so I`m not attacked again. He takes me to the wrong place and then tries to double the price. I yell at him, don`t pay him and find my way to a nice hotel so I can get directions. I get directions and start to walk, which is scary. Next the autorickshaw driver who harassed me when I got off the bus comes over to harass me again. I tell him I`m in a bad mood and want to be left alone. He tells me I don`t like Indian people. I am so insulted and offended and tired and scared that I lose it completely. I have a full scale screaming hissyfit in the middle of the city. I stopped traffic for a full city block (and if you`ve been to India you`ll know what a feat that is). I screamed at him in every language I know and a few I don`t. It was an angry teen kind of hissyfit. There are probably warning posters in the backs of rickshaws now with my picture on them warning people not to talk to the crazy white woman.

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