This morning, we left Jodhpur for Indore. The cleanest city in India, and the ride on the bus from the airport, we could tell that this is the cleanest so far. So much less trash, and Gourav (our coda tour guide) explained to us why. Apparently, they had an agreement with the government to work together on cleaning the city; not all cities have that "agreement" with their government. We stopped by a royal palace on our way to the hotel. It was called "Lalbagh Palace". It showed the first king that lived there, and there were many different rooms for different purposes. Like, dining room, reading room, meeting room, it has a separate dining room for females and males, how interesting! There were two tigers in a glass box in the middle of the palace, real tigers, which were killed by a hunter. Tigers looked bigger than I expected, and they used to have many more, but they decided to reduce them to 2. We learned that the dining room used to have a real diamond lighting hanging low on the roof, but the British took it. Instead of diamond, it changed to regular glasses. It's sad to see them still hoping for their diamond to return today. They have a round stone valley to collect rainwater. Then it'll go through a filter to clean the water. I could imagine how long it would take them to get enough water to cover a period without rain. After a long rest at the hotel, we went to a street food called "Clean Street-Food", but really it is called "56" because there were 56 different markets. It was originated with 56 long time ago, so that's why it is called 56. There were many different foods, and it was hard to choose which one you wanted. Their Kulfi, pistachio cream ice cream, was my favorite thing from that street. We were supposed to go to a market afterward, a market that sells jewelry during the day, then change to different things and foods. It opens at 10 pm, and it's an hour away, so we decided to postpone it to tomorrow. We ended our night early, so we all had a restful night.

-Madison Garrison