This is our last day in Jodhpur and it feels strange to be leaving, we've been here long enough to settle into the guest house, we've met some nice people. It almost feels like the end of a holiday. We enjoyed our last meal on the roof terrace, (there weren't many other places to eat in Jodhpur as it is still out of season and lots of places aren't open yet.) We went back to our room to collect the bags ready for our 11.00pm train, when for the first time in the...

Got up nice and early this morning as we wanted to visit the Meherangarh Fort. We left at 8.30 hoping it would not be as hot... wrong again! We took the 20 minute walk up to the fort and paid the usual inflated prices (10 times what the locals are expected to pay!) and spent the the next hour taking a tour around the fort. We were back at the guest house for 11.00am desperate to escape the heat. We went up to the roof terrace in the guest house for our tea where ...

We woke the following morning to find it had started to heat up. We waited until 16:00 before venturing out, hoping the temperature would cool over the next few hours........WRONG. It was unbearable, mid-40s it turned out according the to local paper the day after! We left the heat as often as possible, sat down and a few drinks, and enjoyed a local disk Thali (a combination of vegetarian dishes , chutneys, pickles, etc). On the way back to the room found some ne...

After a nightmare journey, feeling filthy, irritable and very tired (after only 2 hours sleep) we arrived in Jodhpur. The first task was to find somewhere to stay which proved very difficult as taxi drivers cannot be trusted to take you were you ask. We eventually got to the guest house we wanted to stay at and we soon realised how much nicer Jodhpur was than Mumbai. Our evening was spent wandering around the huge town market where we managed to pick up some clot...