We took it pretty easy on Friday. In the morning, we walked around town for a bit. Jodhpur is a small town by Indian standards, about 500,000. It has plenty of winding streets and alleys to get lost in. All pour out into the center of town, which has a large market and a clocktower. After walking around for awhile, Melisa conned me into a lassi. A lassi is an Indian drink/dessert that is like a thick yogurty milkshake - but, because the cow is sacred, almost all dairy products come from water buffalo. Water buffalo yogurt, um, yeah...
Jodhpur - The Blue City
In the afternoon, we booked a jeep safari. The driver took us out of the city and into the desert-like countryside. We stopped at a few places and got to see a potter, some weavers, a few animals, a fabric factory and a rural hut, where a family lives without water or electricity. In fact, we were even offered opium at the hut - but declined to partake. In a few tiny villages, the Indian government still permits the use of opium.
After our tour, we booked it back to Jodhpur just in time to catch our train to Jaipur, our last stop in Rajasthan.
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