Day 3 - Delhi to Jodhpur

Delhi air was a bit cleaner today, nice to see some blue skies. Journey to airport in my taxi was as crazy as all the other trips; sobering to pass a crunched-up Tuc-tuc static behind a bus at the roadside, with a smashed windshield and blood on the road. These things do 60 kph and share 3-lane roads with all the other traffic, no seat belts, no helmets…..😕

Internal flight from Delhi to Jodhpur, in-flight meal was a warmed spinach & sweetcorn sandwich….🤔. Thirty degs on arrival, nice. Been a while since I’ve arrived on a foreign airfield with batteries of surface-to-air missiles beside the runway….

Paid my new friend Rakesh to show me some of Jodhpur in his Tuc-tuc, albeit at just 5mph (👍🏻) thro the winding streets of the old city, in amongst motorbikes, scooters, stray dogs, pedestrians and some cows….. Warmer here, still smelly, but a more agricultural odour than Delhi! Counted 4 stray dogs sleeping on the roofs of parked cars, and when we returned to our parked Tuc-tuc, a dog was curled up on the seat.

We popped into a hotel being constructed from a very old stone property. I peered into what will be an en-suite shower to clock some bats sleeping up high - a few flew through the place. Delightful creatures, so precious.

The film ‘The Fall’ is worth a watch; it includes footage from the Namib desert, and also Jodhpur, which is famous for its fort and its blue houses. More of both tomorrow!Read more