Lazy Days in Jodhpur

We’ve been completely lazy our last days in Jodhpur, lounging on the roof of our guest house, reading and chatting with other travelers. We met Daniel who ironically only lives about 10 blocks from our place in San Francisco. We went with Daniel to the fort to watch the sunset over Jodhpur and walked around the outside wall of the fort.

While exploring the fort, we decided to walk up some narrow steps to one side of the fort. We knew that there was a monkey up there so Matt decided to poke his head over the stairs to see where it was before we stepped out on the ledge. The monkey met him eye to eye and seemed angry that we were invading his area of the fort. He made some mean screeches and started pushing Matt down the stairwell. We both ran down the steps as fast as we could, getting scraped up along the way. The women at the top seemed humored by this and couldn’t help from laughing at us. We decided to avoid that section and walked on to a safer wall!

We’ve become fairly accustomed to walking around bulls and cows in the street, although I have a very uneasy feeling having a bull walk directly behind me. They all seem fairly docile, just walking and eating and not causing much bother. I was surprised to be buying a water on our way back and seeing two bulls less than 5 feet away start butting heads and fighting in the street. I ran as far as I could away from them! We’ve heard from other travelers of being hit by horns, etc but luckily haven’t had that type of encounter!

We boarded a bus for Jodhpur and after a little over 6 hours (with no bathroom incidents), arrived in Udaipur.