Umaid Bhawan Palace Museum Jodhpur

29th - 30th September

Matt

We woke up early (ish) the next morning and met Vinod at the car to start the journey to Jodhpur. By Indian standards this was a fairly short journey of 4 1/2 hours. Was fairly uneventful aside from the usually swerving round cows and constant honking.

We arrived at the hotel at around 1pm. …

We left Jaisalmer at around 6am, when our driver picked us up we thought that we could smell alcohol in the car but he swore that he had not been drinking. We arrived safely so all was good. We arrived at our guesthouse Durag Niwas, set up here was also a charity called Sambhali Trust where we had planned quite a while back to do a workshop with …

We started our trip to Jodhpur, under the false pretense, " it's only 5 hours away, piece of cake". Another lesson learnt. After finding our bus was not exactly "Super Deluxe" like they promised, the bus ride was very hot and very bumpy and after listening to the buses horn for 7 hours, and again being gawked at the whole time, we still hadn't …

Had another good sleep. Wrist feeling a bit better. I bought some fruit including some of those little chiku fruits, and bargained a tuktuk driver down from 200 to 100 rupees to take me to the Umaid Bhawan Palace. I didn't realise til later, but it is the same palace I have taken a few pics of on the horizon from the fort yesterday. It is out near …

We had a late start today as not much opens until 11 according to Sunil. We headed into the City and stumbled across the Sufi Muslim festival. The place was packed and we struggled to get across the market place. There was music and floats and signing, and all the young girls and women were all dressed and made up. There was such a crowd that we …

Jodhpur carries the title of The Blue City, although having already been to Bundi I was left slightly underwhelmed. Id say that in actuality Bundi is now by far the bluer of the 2 citys. Jodhpurs fort on the other hand is certainly more impressive (particularly internally) and definitely worth a visit. Whilst there you can go over a series of zip …

So today I decided to visit two of the slightly outlying attaractions of Jodhpur. Firstly, Mandore Gardens, about 9km north of Jodhpur are desribed by Lonely Planet as a lush and peaceful place to escape Jodhpur's craziness. Now, I've a lot of time for the LP lads, but quite frankly, it's not much more than a **** hole. When the most memorable …

... to as the birdman. ???? Saw Jaswant Thada and Umaid Bhawan Palace & Museum. I recommend staying at the Umaid Bhawan palace if you happen to come to Jodhpur. It's resembles my vision of a princely English manor, and I was quite impressed. It ...

... jak on, ale ja znajduje w nim bratnia dusze. Jak to sie mowi, wporzo z niego kolo :) Odwiedzamy razem Umaid Bhawan Palace & Museum (fajnie wyglada z daleka, ale nie warto!) i przed zachodem wypijamy piwo pod Jaswant Thada (warto!). Wymiana kontaktow ...