Days Inn Abhay Hotel Jodhpur

I'm not sad at all actually... Jodepur was quite nice, I just thought the title "blue city blues" was an excellent title.

Perhaps an unwritten Miles Davis masterwork. lol.

Anyway, I have nothing really to say. I just thought I would put up some photos. But certianly the most exciting I did in Jodepur was taking a bus out to the city of Oysian for a mini camel safari. Yay for ...

... case whose left side was innocuously filled with rahjastani dolls and toys. On the right hand side, there were only three items. At the bottom was a large slab of stone marked "sample of soft stone." Above it hung and irregular hunk of charred rock labelled, "piece of flame star, Bhinmal Jalore," and finally, above that, there was a horn of the type that you would expect to see on a young stag, with the leadingly imprecise "torn from woman's ...

I highly prefer train travel to bus travel. On the train, I can read, walk around, use the computer, use the toilet, play card games and the like which are very difficult to do on a bus. Anyways, after our 5 hour train ride, we arrived in Jodhpur. Leaving the train station in Jodhpur, we both immediately got a bad vibe for the city and decide to make our stay here shorter than expected. Being late in the afternoon, we traveled out to the local palace and walked the ...

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... told us to come by around six and i found out that he lived about 30min from our hotel. It turns out everything was open for Dewali and everyone was out doing last minute shopping. we all decided to dress up for the occasion and i invested in a punjabi suit and some bangles. and we show up to Anil's around 6 and are a little surprised to find that its only the 9 of us and his family. We sit and chat and look at the unicorn and cute baby posters in ...

... chatted endlessly about going to University in the UK and what films he loved. I think the owners were being really polite and waiting for us to leave the table but we were being polite and waiting for them to leave the table so we all sat there at times not saying anything just fiddling with our napkin or whatever!! We invited them for a game of scrabble or cards and they shook their heads, No, vigorously as if we had invited them to play strip poker ...

... India) and handed out nearly all our supply of pens, as there were over 120 kids (all in uniform) who were the right age to accept the pens! We continued on, stopping at a little township en-route to have a cuppa, a lunch snack and to have a look at the road side markets and shops, (no hassles here) and allot of the locals gave us curious looks and big smiles. We also passed and stopped to meet local (non English ...

... as we later found out, in a very quiet location. Having wandered the hectic markets for a while and got our bearings we decided to take a little dusk trip to the nearby palace, built in the early 20th Century as a home for the Maharaja. Its now part his home, part luxury hotel. We figured it would be interesting to sample a little drink in the bar there and see what a Maharaja's palace looks like. On arrival in a rickshaw we got the ...

... asked for 2 eggs so got to plates of food hee... 226Rps. As we were leaving I saw a small leaflet stuck on the wall and it was the place we are going to stay in when we get to Udaipur it looks nice so that made me happy. We saw our first elephant today walking down the street near our hotel. We sat on the roof reading and talking to the owner about the hotel she was asking us how to run it.... I dunno but Id advertise on the internet... And so we left, I didnt think she was going to let ...