The train to Jodhpur wasn't on time, it was EARLY?! It did manage to set off ten minutes late though but that was fine. The first class carriage was filthy as all trains are here and had genuinely never been cleaned since it was made. A reclining seat here seems to be a human right so all the seats are now broken leaving you precariously leaning backwards, pretty uncomfortable. Someone had sat in Dans seat and asked Dan to move to the other side of the carriage. We weren't cool with this seeing as we had booked the tickets enough in advance to get seats together and we shouldn't have to forfeit this just because someone is less organised. We stood there awkwardly while the man juggled everyone around so that the seat next to his spare one was free and we sat at the other end of the carriage. The train journey seemed to last forever and when they got off at Jaipur we then had to go back to our original seats and then switch again for different people so that finally everyone was once again seated happily for the remainder of the journey.

The journey was around 8 hours long and when we finally arrived we could not wait to go to bed, we had arranged a tuk tuk driver with the hostel so there was someone waiting there but he charged higher then we had agreed. The journey seemed to take a long time down loads of little alleyways and we felt completely lost.

No one was in the reception of the hostel when we arrived which was a bit unnerving and we then found that the first floor was the families home, which meant we had to traipse through it every time we wanted to go outside. But the room was nice enough and we went straight to sleep.

The next day we slept in and went up to the roof top hotel for an early lunch, from the hotel we had a really good view of the fort which is the reason that people actually come to Jodhpur for; it was a good view. For lunch I gambled and got a pasta because I was getting curried out. The food took forever because they actually go to the market and buy the ingredients after you order, but the food was amazing and we both ended up getting pastas for dinner later on.

After lunch we headed to the clock tower nearby where there was a huge market selling loads of things, it was the first day of diwali so the market was full of people buying gifts. We then got a tuk tuk to the fort but the fort was really expensive in comparison to the prices in India. For a person with a camera I think it came to 600 rupees! We managed to use our student cards so that got us some discount, and the ticket price included an audio guide which was pretty interesting.

The audio guide told us that the fort was built specifically so the elephants couldn't charge through, and that it had never been taken by force. The "royal" family are still around and have moved to the palace on the other side of Jodhpur as it is nicer and had more rooms.

The fort was massive and you got to see all of the city of Jodhpur below which is a really useful as Jodhpur is known as the blue city.

I think one important house painted theirs blue a long time ago to keep it cool in the summer and the indigo acts as an insect repellent and then it just caught on so now lots of houses are a pale blue colour.

I was trying to listen to most of the audio guide after Dan got bored and tuned out, but people kept asking for photos with us that I missed quite a bit of it! It is weird that they want photos with us because we thought they would be used to white people here.

We tuk tuk'd back to the hostel and stayed up on the hostel roof top as night fell, diwali is crazy! There were so many fireworks going off everywhere, as far as the eye could see!! It felt kind of like bonfire night which was nice as we were missing that holiday. Some of the fireworks they have here actually sound like bombs that rattle the building!

We had an early train the next day so had to set off at 5:30am and people were still lighting fireworks! They had literally been going all night long! Diwali seems like a cool festival!!