India - Jodhpur

Our 'express' bus to Jodhpur made a stop every ten minutes. It was a weird scene in there, with the foreign tourists all sitting in the seats on one side and the locals squeezed in the sleeper beds on the other side. The 'Jain' bus in the background was our bus and it looks deceptively clean from the outside:

Meherangarh Fort and the blue houses of Jodhpur:

Old city Jodhpur. I love the auto rickshaw rides; it's like walking, except you are not actually making contact with the filthy street surface. My shoes will be burned at the end of this trip:

Hindu temple in the nearby town of Osiyan:

We had planned on taking an overnight train out of Jodhpur rather than spending a night there. So we booked one $20 room to use as luggage storage and to relax until our train time. We did not count on the train being sold out and us having to spend a night in Jodhpur. When we tried to get one more room at our hotel, the hotel was also sold out! 4 people + 1 bathroom + eating curries all day = :