Our Trip to Jodhpur

First we went by sleeper train to Jodhpur. It was about ten hours long. When we got to Jodhpur it was in the morning. We took an auto (rickshaw) to our hotel. We stayed at Hotel Haveli (with a rooftop restaurant). It was 10am so we ate breakfast at the rooftop restaurant.

When we were done with breakfast we went to the big fort in Jodhpur, called Meherangarh. It is a huge fort built by Maharaja Mann Singh in 1806. They gave us audio-guides at the fort. We also walked to the Jarwant Thada (a large white marble tomb). A Maharani built it after her husband's death.

After sight-seeing we ate dinner back at our hotel. When we woke up he next day we rode in a jeep to the desert. We went to a famous (Jain) Temple in the town of Osiyan. Then we got on 2 camels and rode to a villager's house. We ate lunch there. We also swung on a swing and played with the village children. Then we rode on the camels to our tents. The stars are very bright in Rajasthan!

In the morning we rode in a jeep to see a potter and a weaver on our way back to Jodhpur. It was a good trip.

Evan thinks his favorite part of the trip was the train, because the beds were so high up off the floor!