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Travel Blogs from Jodhpur
Jodhpur, 22 - 24 February 2009
From the golden city of Jaisalmer to the blue city of Jodhpur it was another overnight train - although this time just six hours arriving at the ungodly hour of 05h30 ... so we waited a couple of hours in the sleeper passengers waiting room area just above the main station hall (check out the photo to see what that looked like!). The hotel was a …
A pretty city
Waking up in the middle of the desert in a train somewhere between Agra and Jodhpur was amazing if not slightly confusing (considering we were meant to be in Jaipur at this point!) Didn't get much sleep all night thanks to the disgustingly loud snoring of the old man on a nearby bunk, and I semed to be lying right over a wheel... Still, was pretty …
It's Raining Men
... and for once it's not such a great thing :-) It is absolutely amazing how many men are in India... I knew that it was a male dominated society coming into the game but you really have to see it to believe it. We will often walk down streets filled with men, not a woman or child in sight. It is all very strange really - I have never been so …
A few observations...
Thanks again to family and friends for logging on...much appreciated. My other blogs entries have been very much "loving it" ... " amazing" ... "awsome" which the trip is...and more. But today...I found an internet cafe without mozzies...and an hour or so to write down a few of the many observations I've noted down...and the feelings that the trip …
Jodhpur - where the trousers come from....
A little battered and bruised, and feeling slightly travel sick, we arrived in Jodhpur. Sharwan, our driver, didn't know the place too well - perhaps you might think road knowledge would be a pre-requisite for such a career, but you would be wrong - and we spent about an hour trying to find our hotel. We eventually did, in the heart of the old …
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