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| Mehrangarh Fort (from below)
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Jodhpur is known as the blue city for a reason.
Although
originally indigo indicated a house occupied by Brahmins, current
theories as to why so many buildings are painted blue range from it
helping to redirect heat or to ward off mosquitoes.
These and the
immediately following pictures were taken from our hotel's roof.
| A panoramic movie showing the buildings--many blue--in the part of
Jodhpur where we stayed (Old Town).
| Mehrangarh Fort looms high above the city.
| Blue buildings that are brighter than usual.
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| The backside of Mehrangarh Fort, from where our rickshaw driver let us out.
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| Old City
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| The clock tower in the central plaza that separates the Old Town (within
the original city walls) from part of the city outside the walls.
| Jodhpur's main gate.
| Jodhpur's rickshaws. Compare the dimensions and coloring with the rickshaws we saw in
Delhi.
| A makhani lassi from the Shri Mishrilal Hotel.
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| Mehrangarh Fort and Museum
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| From above, the city's blue is even more distinctive.
| Ditto, with a shrine in the foreground.
| A quick panoramic movie over the fort's outposts on other hills.
| The fort's tall walls.
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| An intricate courtyard.
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| One item in the fort's collection of rare cannons.
| Some vicious weapons on display in the armory part of the museum.
| There was an interesting explanation about this scene of a god doing
battle with many others (demons?), but I apparently didn't write it
down; nor can I make out much from the picture itself.
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I saw many platforms designed to be mounted on elephants, as well as
many palanquins (small platforms carried by people).
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| Can you imagine regularly being in a room as ornate as this one?
| Beautiful stained glass lets light into the royal chamber.
| A panoramic movie showing more of the royal chamber.
| Its ceiling.
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| A room, as seen through a mirror.
| Something feels very tacky in this room about the pattern and colors of
the stained glass and the globes hanging from the ceiling.
| Another room. Excellent for its crisp lines, vivid colors, and
modern feel.
| From one of the higher points in the fort, a movie showing the varied
garb of the tourists walking below.
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| From the atop the fort, a panoramic movie of the landscape in an
uninhabited direction.
| The city. In the distance, you can see the Umaid Bhawan Palace (view
the full-sized image), a place we visited later in the day.
| In the foreground, a shrine in one of the fort's lower levels. In the
distance, the blue city. Excellent I suppose.
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| Jaswant Thada and Vicinity
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| Jaswant Thada and the bridge to it.
| The marble solemnity of Jaswant Thada itself. It was nearly empty when
we visited.
| Some shrines near the cenotaph seemed to be popular with locals.
| A closer look at the distant Umaid Bhawan Palace.
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