Jodhpur - On the run through the blue city

Having read a book borrowed from my friends Marlene and Wolfgang which mentions Jodhpur, I felt a strong desire to visit this place. Like Jaisamer, this town has an impressing fort, but in this case it is not habituated and serves touristic purposes only. We already had seen so many palaces with its weapons, jewels and old clothes that we decided no the enter the inside of the fort, but walk around the walls and explore secret passages into the fort. When looking down on Jodhpur we felt a bit disappointed by the rather small percentage of blue buildings and when we already had planned a new law the force the inhabitants to paint there houses in blue, we spotted a very old and authentic part of the city with many buildings in the most different tones of blue. Hypnotized by this stunning view we lay down on the fort-walls and waited for the sunset which turned out to be one of the most marvelous ones I have seen so far. Our stay in this place ended with a visit to the local baser and a rather ugly park, where we seemed to be the attraction rather than the poor vegetation -- the normal Indian does not make the minor effort to dissimulate that he is observing you, more over he tends to stare at you like a cow at a passing train. To make him wake up form this trance like state you can either stop and stare back, or shout hello (Namaskar) so that he knows that you know that he is staring at you ;)
Leaving behind Jodhpur we visited the "Jaswant Thada" temple. memorial of Maharadsha Jaswat Singh II built form the same white MARBLE as the "Taj Mahal".