Jodhpur the blue city

My sari was delivered to our hotel and we went to Rajeev's friend, Jagdish's house for dinner. Jagdish's wife helped me put the sari on and she did a much better job than the guys are the fabric store. She completed my look with a bindi forehead dot and lipstick! When I was all dolled up like an Indian princess we had dinner. After dinner Jagdish took us back to our hotel via his motorbike. We weaved through small alleys and around sleeping cows, it was an expeirence for sure!

It was raining the next morning when we left Udaipur. It is monsoon season and I guess we've been lucky to not have much rain. At least we spent the rainy day in the car. The drive to Jodhpur took 6 hours and we stopped at some temples along the way.

Our hotel in Jodhpur is an old haveli, hundreds of years old. Rajeev took us to a spice store to buy some Indian spices so I can attempt to cook at home (yeah right, we all know that isn't going to happen). We had dinner on our hotel's roof (at least we thought it was our hotel's roof, turns out it was the one next door. Oh well, still good.). The roof over looked the bustling city markets that surround the clock tower and the giant fort up on the cliff.

Today we walked to that giant fort on the cliff. Rajeev said it was only 5 minutes by walk...yeah....5 minutes straight up. Ok ok it wasn't THAT bad. The fort was pretty cool but the views of the city were even better. Jodhpur is known as the blue city and that was apparent from a bird's eye view of it. Tons of the roofs are painted robin egg blue. It was so pretty.
There were tons of locals at the fort and lots of them trying to take pictures of us with their camera phones. One lady was trying to get a picture with me in it so I turned around and asked if she wanted a picture with me and my face, opposed to the back of my head. She even wanted to hold my hand for the picture and I was happy to oblige. We made our way back down the steep hillside ramp and spent the afternoon lunching on the roof and lounging in the room.

Tomorrow we drive to Jaisalmer, the last stop on our short India tour!