No repercussions from yesterday's camel experience. Woken up with the sounds from the Mosques as well as the horns from the traffic, even though we are quite a distance from the road they do Iike horns!

As usual we prepared ourselves for the day. This is to prevent the little blighters (mossies) zapping you.  Shower (lukewarm or occaisionally hot), first layer is skin lotion as your skin gets dry. Next layer 30 factor sunscreen with insect repellent, then anti-mosquito trousers and lastly DEET spray. Still the little buggers get you, though very rarely and certainly not too much of a problem this time of year. No bites at all, which I couldn't say when we are in Europe.

Travelled to Jodhpur today or is also known as blue or sun city.Although a lot of shops were shut, I couldn't understand why so many people were pouring into the small towns. Evidently this is the day when the people from the countryside come in to look for work. 

Now,  I have not mentioned the truck and bus horns. Very varied - some normal (very few), some like football airhorns Duke of Hazard style and then all of a sudden you think a Brittany Ferry is up your bumper. How they never crash amazes me.  We saw some other English (sounded as though they were Londoners) tourists today. Not sure that short shorts and boob tube go down well with the locals. I wonder if some tourists really read the small print when choosing a holiday as many of the tourist transport have about 6 people in a jeep or 8 squashed in a small minibus.

Arrived at the Pal Haveli. "A classic 18th Century Home in the Shadow of the Rathore Citadel...Mehrangarh". A garh is a Rajasthany word for fort or fortress. The representative from the travel company met us as usual and discussed our plans and then we were taken to our room. Being an Haveli, most of the rooms look onto the courtyard.

I have run out of "wows!" In-croy-able! I have included a picture of our room just so that you understand why I have run out of "wows!". 

   Decided to have a look around the market outside the hotel, hectic as usual but noticed that used saris were 50p, material you would die for, shaver man (don't think I could call him a barber and I don't know where his razor had been), brilliant shoe repair man, flour and miller man, dye man(dip dyeing fabric) and many others. 

Had our "high tea" (offered daily to guests) and came across fellow travellers that we had met in Delhi, so we met up for a sundowner trying out the local gin. Excellent. Turns out hubby came from Plymouth! That makes two that dared venture into unknown lands. Looks as though they will be at the same hotels as us for the next week so we made sure that we meet up for future sundowners.