After recovering we went out and saw some more of the city palace, went to the top of a very tall tower that enabled us to view the entire pink city. This, if I didn’t mention before, was one of the first planned city in the world, if not the first. Apparently one of the rulers had decided to make a big cannon, upon it’s test firing the shock wave destroyed parts of the city. To make amends the ruler decided to make a whole new city a few miles away. Presto, Pink City.
The Pink City didn’t actually start pink. Queen Elizabeth came for a visit and the ruler found out she liked pink so he painted the whole city Pink. It’s been like that since.
We also went off and saw the canon and the older part of the city. Although it had been abandoned for the past 300 years or so it was being restored and had some of the most interesting architecture we had seen so far. One room in particular had little tiny mirrors inset into the walls and ceiling, they also had a balcony about 200 feet up that had a 2 foot railing, that made us a little nervous but impressed none the less.
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