North India (Rajasthan and Agra)

North India (Rajasthan and Agra)

We leave Hampi and reach Mumbai in morning hours after 18 hours of journey. We didn’t plan to go to Mumbai as we wanted to keep away from the chaos of big cities, but we had to transfer there on the way to Rajasthan. We had the chance to wander in Mumbai for 14 hours, waiting for the next train. After leaving our backpacks to the train station and just seeing the mighty buildings from the times of British colonization era and visiting the city center where “Gateway of India” stands, we went back to the train station for our 16 hours trip to Jodhpur. Now, we are in the northeast India, in Rajasthan state. Rajasthan means “The Land of Great Kingdoms”. When we go up to the terrace of the guesthouse we found after searching in narrow streets of Jodhpur, we face with Mehrangarh Fort, which looks more magnificent than in the movie, The Fall. While walking among multilayered buildings and seeing just a small part of the sky, we are trying to run away from motorcycles, make way for cows and avoid stepping into the shit. We can’t take our eyes from the surrounding world in streets that can get too narrow sometimes and turning into stairs. Sardar Market, at the touristic center of Jodhpur, captures us with peddlers around the clock tower, shops that can you can find almost everything available and its always open market. Its atmosphere is very friendly and even “familiar”. We climb up to the castle by walking. It’s for free to enter the fort; it is paid just for the museum....