Safari Camp Osian
Travel Blogs from Osian
The Sticks
... a Bishnoi woman called Amrita Devi put her arms around a tree and declared that they would have to cut through her if they wanted to cut it down. The men cut her head off. Amrita's three daughters then followed her example, also getting decapitated, the enraged villagers then covered the site hugging all the trees. In total 363 villagers were decapitated before the maharaja heard of what was happening and ordered the killing to stop, and made it illegal to cut ...
The Train, The Train
... on the tracks and they desire to obliterate neither. Bring ear plugs or request that you be assigned to a coach near to the middle of the train to escape the loud noise of the whistle. There is no actual front and rear to the train as you will find that on one day the engine is at one end of the train pulling it one way and the next day the engine is at the other end of the train pulling it the opposite direction. It seems to me, sadly, that we are at the front ...
Into the Desert
... He introduced us to our camels and his 10 year old son, Arahi, who was already leading the camels around like a pro. Camels are actually quiet comfortable to ride, once you are up in the air. They stand onto their back legs first but as long as you stay balanced for this part its similar to riding a very tall horse. The landscape is pretty arid but there's enough greenery and small farming villages among the sand dunes to keep it interesting. After an hour or so of riding we ...
A quick recce into Rajasthan
... the Park Plaza hotel. Soon we found that the IIT operates from a building on the other side of the road. We reached the IIT building by 13:30.The staff had organized a quick meal for us. The next 5+ hours were busy after the lunch. When we drove out it was quite dark outside and clock showed 19:30 hrs.
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Jodhpur
... again. This time, the lady at the counter was nice and she helped us with our first booking of Indian trains. I couldn’t believe it that even though we were booking 2.5 weeks ahead, both of the trains we were after were near full. All we could get were the ****** classes again, with no AC and full of the Indian masses. It’s going to be a fun overnight ride to Varanasi, NOT! However, we were pleasantly surprised that we managed to book ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility