Tuesday 24 July 2012

Jodhpur the blue city!

Last weekend we went to Jodhpur, the time has now come for us to leave and that was our last trip in India before moving to Norway!
So we decided on doing it in style- no other way really!

Jodhpur is called the blue city, and it really was blue !

We stayed in the fantastic palace called Umaid Bhawan. Wow it was amazing! It was truly the most beautiful place we have ever stayed in before! And the breakfast was enormous but gorgeous! We ordered pancakes, and got toast, orange juice, fresh fruit, croissants, muffins, cheese, eggs, bacon, ham, yoghurt's and tea! haha it just kept coming!
At breakfast you had many friends, there were the peacocks walking about, little birds eating from your table as soon as you turn your head and squirrels running around your feet waiting for some bread!

The first day we just took it easy, stayed by the pool and then had a massage for two in the spa with a rose bath and bottle of champagne to finish it of!
Then a lovely meal in the evening.
The second day we went to the Mehangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada and a local market and walked around, we bought some things that local ladies had made and also some new amazing bead spreads and sofa throws.
On the third and last day we just enjoyed our time at the palace, had a long breakfast and tried to eat as much as possible! and then just stayed around the pool.  As no one else was there we got very good service, every 20 minutes we got a juice, cold, towel or cold water to drink.
There were only three more couples at the hotel as it is off season so everyone working at the hotel knew where we were at any given time!

Great town, cleaner, more quieter and very friendly! And the palace was amazing, 10 out of 10!

The blue city.

Our palace in the distance.

The Umaid Bhawn Palace from the garden

The lobby.

Our room.


Our amazing bathroom in the turret!

Peacocks at breakfast.

Our breakfast, notice the little bird in the right corner.

squirrel


Pigeon Master, his job was to chase the pigeon away whereever we went.





This man got payed to smoke Opium every day to show tourists. 

One of the bars.

Sunbathing by the pool

The spa.




Mummy and baby monkey!

The market.

Wine (s) time!


At night.

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