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# Jodhpur
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/jodhpur/
- Published: 2007-12-24T20:39:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T17:03:25.000Z
- Description: With its blue houses and winding, medieval streets, Jodhpur is one of the most photogenic cities in Rajasthan.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Jodhpur is the second-largest city in Rajasthan. It is also known as the blue city, because of the many blue houses. The 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort offers spectacular views over the city. The old city of Jodhpur is a maze of winding, medieval streets aligned with shops and bazaars. I spent a full day in Jodhpur.

![Jodhpur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-1.jpg)

The Mehrangarh Fort offers spectacular views over the old town of Jodhpur

![Jodhpur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-2.jpg)

Close-up of the rooftops

![Jodhpur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-3.jpg)

The best way to explore Jodhpur is to just lose yourself in the maze of winding alleys

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-4.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-5.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-6.jpg)

Shops and bazaars in the old town of Jodhpur

![Jodhpur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-7.jpg)

Jodhpur is also known as the Blue City. I wonder why 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-8.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-9.jpg)

Market in Jodhpur

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-10.jpg)

Jodhpur is crowded

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-11.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-12.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-13.jpg)

Women cleaning the street and burning garbage early in the morning

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-18.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-19.jpg)

The Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. By the way, it's big.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-14.jpg)

It felt too much of a commonplace at the time but I now regret not taking more photos of women in colourful saris

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-15.jpg)

Just a normal street in Jodhpur outside the city walls

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/jodhpur-16.jpg)

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