In Fort - Handprints

Queens handprints on archway - their last walk through prior to throwing themselves on their dead husbands cremational fire (pyre) to burn alive silently

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16 December : Jodphur

December 21st 2007
Jodphur Day 8 & 9 of Rajasthan Tour A 5 hour drive past countless open mines and hills where they are chipping away at the rock to make bricks for building, we arrived in Jodphur, population 800,000. Quite clean really, Lonely Plant says it is full of rubbish and open sewers but we are yet to see this, I mean there is always rubbish somewhere in every town in India, but here its ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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