These two cities are visual treats to experience the colours of India.
I’m lost. I’ve wandered into a part of Jodhpur just below the city’s hilltop fort, and now I’m drifting through a tangled maze of narrow corridors winding between houses joined wall-to-wall, all painted blue to echo the cloudless sky above this Indian desert city. For the second time I’m passing the same tiny square where a man is pressing laundry using a heavy iron filled with hot coals.
Another source of fame is its antique shops. If you’re in the market for a marble jaali screen, a chest decorated in the florid Rajasthani style or a studded door, the antique shops of Jodhpur are the place. Another must for shoppers, the Jain fabric emporium is known to all the city’s guides, where the eponymous Mr Jain will unfurl pashminas, carpets, rugs, throws and scarves that will have you gasping, at miraculous prices too. You will not leave empty-handed.
Located a few kilometres from the city, Amber Fort is one of the staples of the Indian experience, a mighty and imposing palace-stronghold set high on a ridge and casting its reflection across the lake at its feet. Opposite the main gate of the fort, the jeep road takes you down a winding path past the wonderful Shri Jagat Shiromani ji Temple, the Panna Meena ka Kund stepwell and finally to the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing.
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