Liliana’s South East Asia Adventure

So I’d like to make another correction. Although some people may smoke hash the drug of choice in Raj is opium. Some Maharajas traded it. I was thinking the answer was Caspian Sea but the brit and I were wondering is it a sea or a lake. Because Rajasthan is in the Thar Desert they do military nuke testing. It is right next to Pakistan. While driving to Jodphur I heard a loud noice like something went off. We were passing military bases. I said to my driver jokenly that we were just infected with nuclear fallout. So I’m in the blue city or sun city as its called. Sun city perhaps because it’s very hot. Blue city because when they built the building they used sulphur to protect the outside. It’s a blue color and hince the name.

India is a lovely country but at the same time it is a dirty country. It is sad to look at all the trash on the streets. People don’t care and litter all the time. I had to stop my driver once from throwing 2 empty water bottles out the car window. While walking through the old city trash and cow dung was everywhere. The buildings were interesting but I had to watch were I walked. So today I went and saw the fort which is why people come here. It’s called Mehrangarth and was built 1459 AD. It’s this huge impressive fort on a hilltop overlooking the valley below. A wall is also surrounding the old city. What was nice is they had a audio tour available for people when they walked around. You can see Moghul art and design in the building. Until 1948 or so Rajasthan was seperate cities or regions with Kings as rulers. I forgot that the Chinese invented gun powder. I didn’t realize it was invented so early in 15? Perhaps earlier but that is when the king of this city decided to use it instead of Swords etc which he thought more honorable. One of the daggers would be thrust into your body and then open up like sissers. How discusting but hey it worked.

It’s hot very hot. This hotel I’m at is nice. THe only problem is they don’t give you a towel or tp. I have tp but have been using the pillow sheet from the extra pillow to dry myself off. It’s so hot that it dries fast anyway. In the beginning both were provider but this hotel and the one before didn’t. Hopefully this won’t happen anymore but more then likely it will. So After the fort we went to see a ceonotypth for a dead king that was made out of marble. So beautiful they say it’s next to godliness like the Taj. In an hour I will go see another building palace. Tomorrow we leave for another city. I will stay one day there and then head to Pushkar. Ciao. P.S. I will not be uploading any pictures now because my batteries are dead and the guy wants to charge me 100 rupes. That’s like $2.25. I will hopefully do it somewhere where it doesn’t cost extra.

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