I’m in Jodhpur right now and in this raw vlog I’m gonna show you guys
how this city is so beautiful and historic and so freaking intense.
Alright guys I’ve just arrived in Jodhpur and this is my first time here. The last time I was
even close to this part of India was like in the mid 90s so I don't really remember it. Right now
my internet isn't working so I can't get an uber so I have to figure out how to get to my hostel
with uh I guess a taxi or auto. Pretty sure I’m getting scammed but don't see
any other way because my sim card's not working
sure that auto just scammed me so if you don't want to get scammed don't get in that guy's auto.
Okay I just came to my hostel where I have a private room and the room is okay
there's like a very ancient lock that I haven't used in a while but the roof is the main thing. There's a
sick ass view of the whole fort right from here and it's a lot closer than I thought it was. I
think it's less than a kilometer away from here so I’m probably gonna go explore there but first I’m
gonna go head into sort of the old town area and see some stuff and get some food and everything
This seems to be a market right in the middle of old town. It was named after maharaja Sardar Singh
who also built this huge clock behind me which is called Ghanta Ghar. There's all kinds of shops
around here selling everything. Doesn't look like it's anything too pricey or fancy so if you were
to come shopping here make sure you bargain or you'll end up paying like five times the price
okay now I’m hungry and I’m gonna try out this local favorite place called shahi samosa. I’m
guessing they sell samosas but the item that I was recommended here is called piyaaz ki kachori
which I guess has onions because piazz means onions but I have no idea what kachori is so I’m
about to try it and find it out. This is so busy there's but there's barely any place to stand here
I’m gonna try out the piyaaz ki kachori now. I don't know what that was
So guys it was impossible to find a place to stand even there forget about finding a place to sit
and eat so I had to walk for a few minutes to try these uh piyaaz ki kachodis which are basically
some deep fried stuff with a lot of onion and dough in it all right let's try this
This tastes a lot like a samosa basically.
Definitely more onions in it than a samosa but it's like a huge samosa
A few quick things that I’ve noticed about Jodhpur for so far is that the auto rickshaws are
usually a different color than the one I’m used to so it's not yellow and black
like it was in Kolkata and Mumbai. It's a lot more yellow and green.
Speaking of colors the people here are dressed in the most colorful outfits I’ve ever seen all
the women are like super dressed up and like wearing really really bright colors
Definitely a lot of colorful clothing over here and these are all handmade and Jodhpur
is in general very famous for being one of the biggest markets for handicrafts and handmade work
in India. So the city of Jodhpur was actually founded in 1459 by this guy named Rao Jodha who
established this as the capital of his kingdom and the city went on to be very successful because it
was on this very important trade route between Delhi and Gujarat and the kingdom he established
is called the kingdom of Marwar. The people who lived here are called the Marwari people which
is super interesting to me because when I was a kid growing up in Bangladesh my neighbors next
door to me were actually Marwari people and they spoke the language with each other like they were
from Bangladesh but their ancestors were all from Marwar and they made the
best vegetarian food I’ve ever had so I’m excited to try more food from this place
So Jodhpur is often called Rajasthan's blue city and it becomes pretty obvious where it
gets that name when you walk around town and see all these blue buildings
I’m trying to go up to the fort on this way that
google maps is telling me to go but everyone else told me to go the other way
so I’m probably going the wrong way but I just want to give it a shot because I know I can't get
it in the fort anyways with my gimbal and cameras and everything so I just want to try this route.
So I’m still on route to this temple. At least I’m going somewhere and once you sort of have
a vantage point of the city it starts to be very clear that a lot of these houses
are super blue. When I was walking around it looked like it was only like 20 % but I guess
a lot of these houses don't have like a blue exterior but have like a blue roof top because
it looks entirely blue from here and one of the reasons the buildings are blue is because blue
as a color is a good reflector of heat and this place gets hot as hell in the summer
So I’m at the spot with a lot of cute little squirrels and behind me is the main fort of
Jodhpur the Mehranghar fort which is also the largest fort in all of Rajasthan. This is a
colossal fort. It's pretty much been here since the city of Jodhpur I think and in its 500 years
of existence it has never been overtaken which is pretty obvious because it stands on this
huge 150 meter high hill, takes up all of it and there's three kilometers of walls protecting it
on all sides so it's pretty much impossible to capture from a medieval point of view. I can't
really go up any further. I’d have to go around and go in so I’m gonna save the interior of the
fort for tomorrow but this is a perfect spot to end the day because now I can get my aerial shots
So turns out I didn't screw up that bad and this is actually a sunset
viewpoint so I’m actually going to try to go home now before it gets too dark
So it's day two and I’m finally going inside the fort, the museum. Only doing this with my camera
so it's gonna be a little bit shaky and I just got harassed by the security here for like the
last 30 minutes. Usually I don't put up with that stuff but now I kind of have to because I need to
catch a train in a couple of hours. Don't want any unexpected delays right here
There's some incredible architecture all throughout
this fortress and on the rooftop when you come here you see like
thousands of kites flying over the place and that's because these kites are protected by
the fort and they're fed every day, like more than a thousand of them it's crazy.
So I’m on the rooftop of the fort and you can see all the cannons that were used to defend the fort
back in the day. So behind me right there is the favorite temple of Rao Jodha and he used to come
here every day. I don't really have time to go down there right now because I have to run and
catch a train to get out of here asap but I’m pretty sure I was on the other side of the wall
right behind that temple yesterday so I guess it's coming full circle. Okay so right now I am at the
spot next to the fort which is very special to me and is the reason that I came to Jodhpur.
Ten years ago this movie came out from the Batman series, The Dark Knight Rises
and is one of my favorite movies ever by one of my favorite directors ever about one of my favorite
comic book characters ever and I was a pretty big comic book nerd back in the late 90s and
early 2000s. There's this very famous scene where Batman sort of escapes a prison and there's a huge
fort behind it and when I saw that in the movie I was like okay I need to go here. I need to find
where it is. When I looked it up it was in India surprisingly and then when I looked it up where
exactly it was it was in Rajasthan and I knew I had sort of been in the area when I was a little
kid so I asked my mom like, “mom have we been to Jodhpur?” and she was like, “no we haven't”,
and I marked it on my google maps as this is somewhere I definitely want to go when I have the
chance. And that's the reason I’m here in the city basically. But I came here and turns out it's not
actually a well that he escapes from which leads to a prison. It's just like a four foot wall and
there's no hole in the middle going down anywhere. No climbing needed or anything like that.
But let me tell you more about the scene because I think it's like super interesting. Batman is
basically trapped in this underground prison but the only way to get out is to climb this
very high well all the way to the top. He tries to climb it every time and he fails every time
but every time he's doing it while he's carrying this heavy rope on his side so that in case he
fails he has something to like hold on to so he doesn't die. But then at the end he realizes that
the added weight of the rope is what's holding him back from making this last jump that he needs
to do to get out of the well and then he tries it without the rope and then he does it and he
gets out and he saves Gotham. But I think there's a really important lesson to be learned here about
how we can stop ourselves from succeeding if we're too afraid of failing
I’m getting one last look at it on the rooftop of my hostel
but anyways I’m gonna end this vlog here because I have to catch a train
to Jaisalmer in the next hour and a half. If you like this video don't forget to like button.
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