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Rangeelo Rajasthan - Jodhpur

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                                                            The beautiful city of Jodhpur We reached Jodhpur on our 4 th marriage anniversary. It was the Christmas eve as well. It was beautiful staying at Mandore Guest house, about 7 kilometers from Jodhpur and right across the supposedly beautiful Mandore gardens (which we never visited). We wanted to have a good time on this special day and were off towards the city. The things on agenda were of course the delicious Marvadi cuisine, The Mehrangarh fort, Jaswant Thada and the Umaid Bhavan palace.  Most structures in Jodhpur (just like in Jaisalmer) were Blue. This is to avoid insects, we were told. I kept wondering if the color had something to do with pesticides. Nevertheless, Mehrangarh fort is one of the beautiful(lest) fort and the biggest in Rajasthan and was constructed in 1459. Unlike the Jaisalmer fort, this was better maintained and un-littered. The fort is more or less a museu

Rangeelo Rajasthan - Jaisalmer

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We were anticipating Jaisalmer to be the highlight during our voyage to Rajasthan and it indeed lived up to our expectations. We spent two nights at Chokhi Dhani located in the Sam village, at the outskirts of Jaisalmer city.                                                   At Chokhi Dhani By the time we reached Sam, it was well past noon. Since we were camping out in the open, it was really cold and it appeared there was no stopping the wind which was blowing at great speed. The flags on the top of the tent (which I guess were put up for identification) flapped frantically. After lunch and a sweet nap later, it was time to go to the Thar Desert situated about a kilometer away and we had the ship of the desert for company. The temperature might have been 2 or 3 degrees and while on the way, I saw couple of never-seen-before birds. Since I was just making forays into bird watching, I promised myself to look up in to Salim Ali’s book titled the Birds of India for the