We went out for dinner later on and went to a nice hotel with rooftop restaurant that had great views over the fort. It has to be said that to us, Jodhpur is most beautiful at night, the fort looked incredibly enchanting, lit up in the night sky and the whole place took on a whole different look to that of the daytime, it was all twinkley and seemed to hum with the bustle off the streets below.

The next day we set off for a tour round the Meherangarh Fort, there is a long winding road leading up to it or a shorter steeper set of steps, due to the heat we thought we’d take the steps, and after much huffing and puffing we reached the top. It was fairly busy and had quite a few stalls outside of the entrance, so we grabbed a bottle of water and went in, it turns out that you have to purchase an audio guide as your entrance ticket, it

was quite pricey in Indian terms but we thought it would be worth it, and it was! We were told by the ticket man that ‘it was guaranteed to be the best audio tour in the world’. Some claim for sure, I have to say it wasn’t quite as good as Roger Moore at the Forbidden City but I don’t think anything could beat that!

The fort was very majestic and huge, there are numerous courtyards with some amazing views over the city and some just utterly amazing courtyards. It also has a museum which was great, there must have been a great deal of wealth around as their were some very impressive lavish rooms and a host of expensive looking things ranging from a 17th century marble seat to glittering elephant howdahs (seats), all very impressive stuff. We spent most of the morning there and stopped off for lunch at the rather posh looking café! When we were making our way to the exit a group of lads