Jodhpur

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Next stop was Jodhpur, home of the funny shaped trousers (yes the waiters in the restaurants were wearing them. I liked Jodhpur. We had a nice hotel (an old fashioned one in a haveli) with a very nice rooftop restaurant. The fort was also the best we went to, with a great location and interesting tour. To the left is Sarah and the view from out hotel-top restaurant to the fort, in other directions you could see the old square and clocktower and a big pond with some fountains. As you can see the fort looks pretty impressive. We arrived here in the evening and the next day we went to the fort. One thing I found about old fashioned hotels was a propensity to have a very low doorway to the bathroom. I think I may have lost a few papers that way.

We walked the 15 minutes or so to the fort in the sun as our driver said the road up was closed. As we approached the fort there were monkeys, the first time I'd seen them here I think. They were big vicious looking ones that I'd keep well away from. There was an audio guide which was very good (c.f. later one in Jaipur!). It started in a fairly gruesome way: cannonballs marks from sieges, handprints from "sati" (ritual suicide of wives on there husbands funeral pyre) and some guy who volunteered to be interred in the walls to lift a curse. The fort had a very strong and impressive position as was very ornate inside too. The third photo shows the somewhat blue town below.