You only really begin to see why Jodhpur is called the Blue City
when you view the old city from the top of the fort.
A typical house in the old city, painted in the blue colour originally
used by the Brahmins, the upper caste of Indian society. It is also said that the colour wards
off mosquitos.
The fort overlooking the old city is a massive and highly impressive structure
which dominates everything around it. It's a tiring walk up from the hotel, from where this picture was taken.
The fort looks as impressive from the back as it does from the front.
The Jodhpur rickshaws are much cleaner and more highly decorated than those in Delhi,
for example. It helps to meet a Canadian who speaks fluent Hindi, then get him to negotiate the price before
a journey. It's inevitably cheaper that way!
The inside of the rickshaw with driver still in heated negotiation.
