Jodhpur

We headed on a great 3AC overnight train from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur, excited for our planned home stay with the family that hosted Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody while they were filming the Darjeeling Limited. We got a great tip from a friend of ours and arrived at Amar Niwas Guesthouse without much trouble. The family - Sunil and Neena - were infinitely helpful (although I shouldn't praise them until our package that they sent arrives home safely) and great friends.

We found after our first day of walking around the narrow Blue Old City of Jodhpur that it was much larger and more hectic than we anticipated, and the fellow travellers that were there were usually only spending the night on their way to somewhere else. There was however a very cool Lord of The Rings-esque fort and some great street food and we managed to bump into some friends from Jaipur to spend a day with.

We planned to send a package home from Jodhpur as our packs were becoming ridiculously heavy and we managed to acquire a few extra pieces of luggage on the way as well. We made up a list of things to buy and send home and Sunil took me all around the city on the back of his Royal Enfield to pick them up which was definitely a highlight for me.

Although not ideal, we had to spend new years in Jodhpur but we definitely made the most of it. Bars are few and far between in Jodhpur but we found a wine shop and loaded up and found on of the few places in town that served cold beer and enjoyed a fantastic dinner (some of the best Indian food in India so far) and several drinks. We headed back up to the rooftop of our guesthouse and put on some tunes and fixed some cocktails and watched an impromptu fireworks show over the Old City with the fort light up in the background. Although the fireworks were beautiful, the setting for the was urban enough to give us a feeling of what it would be like to have your city bombed in the middle of the night. In all i would have to say it was a great new years eve, and despite being in India, McDonalds on New Years Day is still the perfect cure for a hangover.

Next Stop Udaipur...

Clock Tower Market

The Omelette Shop...Amazing

Having Chai while we buy some treasures

The Fort

New Years Eve Beers

A view of the Blue City