So Jaipur was known as the pink city, but lets call it red for arguments sake, plus it was full of pigs. Now Jodhpur on the otherhand, was coated with a much more attractive sky blue, much more welcoming for us Sheff Wednesday fans. We only had one day here and didnt even bother to rush around, we woke up around 1pm (a well needed lie-in was definately a good thing though) then we had a walk through the market place and bazaars to find somewhere to eat. Nearly every restaurant in this area is veg only, and me and master Maj are definately more on carnivore side of the obnivore scale. After eating some good chick-chick curry we made our way to yet another fort!
Meherangarh Fort is the biggest one we've seen yet. And on a plus side, we managed to get in for free, as it was coming to the end of the day, the guards were not on point with the ticket checking. The top of the fort wall was complete with plenty of cannons, ready for oncoming fiends from the desert. The view is pretty spectacular, with many of the buildings painted in a sky blue, it gives the impression of the fort being surrounded by water, pretty artistic. We suspected the buildings were painted through no choice of the owners, its just known as the cities "thing", the blue city.
We took some photographs with some children who actually lived within the fort (quite the hike back from school) and we showed them how to rock their caps so looked like a bunch of G's, they weren't impressed. Pussies. There was also a great palace built on top of some rocks which we sneaked into. There wasn't much in there that we haven't seen before. The usual intricately decorated rooms, filled with every colour imaginable. Some of the corridors led out to a high balcony which gave us some great views of the city. Maj was practising his camera skills here, he did pretty well too. Got a long way to go till he's a photo pro like me though. We got a great picture with one of the fort guards as we were leaving, and this dude had an amazingly garnished mustache. Just before the pic was taken he had to straighten it out (the mustache that is) to make sure he was looking fly. Me and Maj were very envious.
The city is quite similar to that of Udaipur with many alleyways leading in every direction, filled with cows, pigeons, dogs and local Indians, and also cow pat, pigeon droppings, dog poo and local indian shit. Such a romantic place.
Jodhpur Photo Link:
http://www3.snapfish.in/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=1936016011/a=2264773011_2264773011/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/
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