Hotel Durjan Niwas

Daspan Vihar, Old Loco Shed Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342001, India | Hotel

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The Sticks

A travel blog entry by hobo-magic

... themselves on his funeral pyre to be burnt alive! The ruins of Mandor Fort sit up on a ridge behind the park and we scrambled up and watched loads of big grey monkeys with long tails playing in the ruins. The best thing about Mandor Gardens was "Fun World" we paid 5 rupees to go in with the promise from the ticket man of amazing rides and a water flume. When we got in the most exciting attraction was an old broken down Mariti Suzuki with a door missing. ...

Jodhpur - The Blue City

A travel blog entry by colettels

... centuries. He spins his wheel with a wooden stick and fires them in a kiln on site. We visit a Bishnoi household. They are very conservation minded. Everything has its use and is recycled, even the animal dung which is used as fuel. In Rajasthan men wear elaborate turbans in different colours to signify status - white or yellow for farmers; maroon and dark red for shepherds. Saffron is the colour of sacrifice or a warrior. Pink or orange denotes a Sadhu or ...

India, Happy Diwali

A travel blog entry by anne-c

... kaarsjes, en lampjes branden. Het wordt gevierd met heel veel vuurwerk (5dagen lang!) en veel zoete lekkernijen. Er hangt een gezellige sfeer, in de avond is het uitzicht prachtig met al die verlichting. Maar door het festival is het ook enorm druk overal en met de taxi op de plaats van ons bestemming komen ging dan ook niet makkelijk. Dan blijkt ook nog eens dat onze taxichauffeur de weg naar ons hotel niet weet....en ons dropt bij een touroperator, ...

The Blue City (kind of...)

A travel blog entry by cats-adventures

... our dal and lassi and needing a small bit of naan, onto the computer I went first setting her up a fb account, and then setting up the web page “The Spice Paradise” (please like it!!!). After spending about an hour sorting all this out, typing about 2000 words and saving it etc everything was lost apart from the name and picture! I was gutted. The one thing that perked me up was when Laura fed me a “Spice paradise naan special” ...