Jodpur

Got here yesterday evening. Rana had already booked me a room and highly recommended this place (Durag Villas). It’s pretty awesome, In a quiet area just outside the city center My room is huge with aircon, and opulent features such as stained glass, quite nice paintings (prints) an intricately calved table ect. The bath room alone is bigger than my room in briz, and is covered in white marble (we drove passed loads of marble quarrying on the way here.) I’m sat on the roof top terrace typing this now J oh and the best thing… it £10 per night J

Last night I played Raju at chess, he’s not too bad. Rana says he’s a pretty strong ludo player (!?) but not chess.

As the evening went on oth travelers joined us on the roof and played Tigers and Goats against a Nepalese guy, who was shocked to lose to a westoner as both (hehe)

Today I’m feeling almost 100% again which is so good. We Visited the Meherangarh Fort which would be amazing anywhere but overlooking the blue city made it really magical. Raju came in to as he’d never seem the fort and its really cheap for Indians to get in. He dosen’t speak any English but we can communicate ok with points and nods etc. Then I popped into a marble temple that was glowing on the inside as the sun hit the other side of the marble.

After that I had lunch in beautiful courtyard garden restaurant with lots of trees. Then went to the Palace a bit of which is open to the public. It is one of the largest in the world, took 15 years to build and was only finished in 1947. It seems the Maharaja at the time did many good things for the people here but one of his proudest achievements was taking his polo team to England and beating all comers.

Tommoro, off to pushkar

Laters, Dan

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