Jodhpur is known as the Blue City, because of the colour of its buildings. After meeting our guide (Sunni), we headed for the Jaswant Thada, made from white marble. Whilst the Taj Mahal is a Muslim monument, so contains graves, this is a Hindu monument – Hindus are cremated, rather than buried, so Jaswant Thada…

I had to do a quick ‘bonus’ blog today, but if you aren’t into food, then you can look away now…. One of the vloggers we looked at a lot while preparing for India was Sherry, and her GottaDoIndia Youtube channel… …so, when Sushil, our driver, asked if we wanted to eat out in Jodhpur…

Driving in India can be interesting to say the least, it seems to be that all you need are series of beeps of the horn to let other drivers know you are coming through, and that is it. There was no apparant lane ettiquette at first, but the more you observe, then you see that…

Today we toured the main sites of Udaipur, a beautiful city in South Rajasthan built around three large artificial lakes. It reminds me very much of the great lakes in Northern Italy in style, right down to the decorative islands in the centre of the lakes. First of all, we visited the City Palace of…

After I posted the blog last night, we discovered they were preparing for a Hindu Wedding at our hotel…the guests had started arriving, and the colours were spectacular. The main festivites, three days of them, were due to start tomorrow. We were heading off to Udaipur today, which was about 300km South West of Pushkar,…

We were sad to leave Jaipur, as it is a great city, however, leave it we did…but not before our driver, Sushil, invited us to meet his family. He took us to his home, in a small quarter of Jaipur where we met his wife and six children. It was a simple home, but the…