The Mighty Meherengarh

In the morning, pinkly luminous - us that is, not the morning - we went up to do a tour of the fort. We had great difficulty finding anyone to take our entrance fee, as we came in by the wrong gate, and also had several conversations similar to the following:
"Where is the main gate?"
"Yes, main gate."
"Yes, where?"
"The main gate?"
"Yes."
"It is by the main gate"
"Yes, but where is that?" "How do I get there?" "Which way?" "Direction please" etc
"Yes, go to the main gate."

But it was a marvellous place, and well worth volunteering to pay the entrance fee, because there was an excellent audiotour waiting for us at the main gate, when we found the main gate. (Incidentally, it was exactly where the man had said it would be, by the main gate.)
The audiotour was presented by a man with a very lush Indian accent, clearly profoundly in love with his oratorical style. The pictures below of and from the fort tell the story themselves - I think it is the side-effect of having such a good audiotour, that I can't remember for the life of me any of the details.

For some reason, I had to keep saying "Welcome to the MIGHTY MEHERENGARH FORT!" in a silly booming voice everywhere we went, until about 2 and a half hours later when I could see the look in Katya's eye finally that meant shut the fuck up. Bless her for her patience....

By the way, for those of you with a celeb interest, in the background one can just make out the palace where Liz Hurley is getting married to her Indian fella, today (Saturday) I think.

I also spied a beautiful woman, who I recruited to be the first part of my harem:

Many more of the various courtyards and views of blue roofs of Jodhpur available on request.