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Roasting in the sun at the Sun-fort!
Posted By joseph
Mehrangarh Fort, the sun-fort, is one of the largest forts in India. Built in 1459, by the Rao Jadho - the fifteenth Rathore ruler. The fort is located only 15 minutes away from the tourist heart of the city - panch batti chouraha, where all the popular hotels are located.
The drive upto the fort showed us some of Jodhpur’s delightfully quirky architecture and roadsigns. A very helpful autowallah directed us in a language we came to understand as belonging to planet Klingon. Being experts in Klingonese, we zoomed off to our destination - of course, we lost our way thrice along the way but we still made it in time.
In time to be roasted in the afternoon heat around the fort, that is. We are very considerate of our health and ensure we are healthy and fit for our travels - hence we took the ELEVATOR up to the fort! Yes, this place has an elevator too! :D
There’s no story to cut short here. The history of the Fort is readily available on the Wiki, so here are some photographs of the people, the mood and the two nomads who bring you this post. Hopefully they’ll speak atleast a few hundred words about the place.
At the ticket-counter, with a colorful follower!
More colorful folks! (male nudity censored!)
Shooting blue
GDC at the Blue city
Shady encounters with the clouds
Namrata took a shot of the blue city to update the blog, just a photo guys!
Some of the walls had vivid paintings (not sure if they belonged to the 1600s) and the arching corridors were a delight!
I looked up and spotted a pigeon! Masabkali!
We posed for some photos, very filmy ishtyle!
The local guides were all dressed up, and of course, there was a special chair for those who wanted to get a very nice tan.
This man was one of the show-pieces in front of the Musuem. When we asked who he was, the first thing he replied was “camera ke liye ticket liya kya aapne?”. Ah well, he got the attention of all the foreign tourists around for sure!
The musuem in the Fort is home to some of the most exquisite collections of palanquins, elephant howdahs, daulat khana, armoury, turban galleries, and paintings. Of course, there were a lot of locals and foreigners visiting the place.
A shot of the Cedia as we went down the hill
Jodhpur was followed by Ajmer, then Jaipur and Agra, and now Shivpuri. Lots to follow folks!
Joseph
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the pictures are beautiful & so natural
looking forward to more
I know its been hectic for you two covering it all up…....but little can I wait for the wonderful posts that are coming for us.
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