Amber

Amber, Rajasthan, India

Amber Fort

The fort-palace at Amber

Amber, Rajasthan, India

The fort-palace of Amber (also written and pronounced as 'Amer') is about 10km from Jaipur. The guidebooks like to describe it as ‘delicate pink’, although the outer walls and some of the interior are a rich sand-yellow. Only the interior approaches any kind of pink, and even there yellow predominates. The fort is home to a colony of langur monkeys, who perform acrobatics on the battlements and view the tourists with languid indifference.