From Pushkar to Jodhpur

The heat is unbearable.

It's unrelenting, crippling, physically and mentally draining. It just sucks the energy right out of you. I knew it'd be hot, but not this hot.

I haven't seen a day under 40 in over a week. Even at night it rarely dips below 30. Eeeeeerrgh.

Anyway, I've manged to gather together enough of the melted slush that used to be my brain to sit down and update this blog. I know I've been slack. Well, very slack. But I've been busy! The catch-22 of doing lots of blog worthy activities is that you're so busy doing blog worthy activities you don't have time to blog about them.

Clear? Good. Back to the blog...

Pushkar was lovely, but it's a small town and by the third day I'd well and truly run out of things to do. So I packed my bags, bought myself a bus ticket to Ajmer (about 12km from Pushkar), and then I left. From Ajmer I took a train that same day west to Jodhpur, the 2nd largest city in Rajasthan.

Jodhpur an amazing sight. The crowded city surrounds a steep hill, on top of which is built an enourmous, 500-year-old fort. No matter where you stand in Jodhpur it looks spectacular.



I spent an entire day inside the fort, and it's just as breath taking inside as it is out. It's amazingly well kept (unusual for India), and as you can see from the pic below, the city views from the outer walls are pretty special.

Now, I'm not sure how this came about, but it seems sometime ago Jodhpur's residents got together and decided to paint the town blue. Thanks to this initiative, Jodhpur has now been given then rather cryptic nickname 'the blue city'.



I stayed at a great little hostel/hotel in Jodhopur called Yogi's. It sits right below the fort - the top pic in this post was taken while eating my breakfast at the roof-top restaurant. Delicious.

And just on a personal note, all is very well with me. The bowels are holding up nicely, and no injuries, bugs, bites, fights, thefts, or any other problems whatsoever. It's been surprisingly smooth sailing so far. (touch wood).

It's washing day for me tomorrow, so while some Indian woman beats the life from my clothes at the local washing ghat, I'll hopefully have a few spare mins to update you all on some of my other recent activities.

Hope all is well back home!