Youth Hostel Bikaner

... Jain Temples, Wildlife Sanctuary, Scenic Beauty, Nakki Lake, Honeymooner Point, Sunset Point, etc are attractions of Mount Abu visit. Other worth-visiting cities of the state are Kota, Bundi, Chittorgarh, Bikaner, Ranthambhore, Bharatpur, etc. There are several travel agents in the state offering travel and tourism packages. Choose a reputed Rajasthan travel agent, book your tour package ...

... run up to Dave and say "Chewie can I have your autograph" he feels the need to lash out at me.)<br><br> Back to the wedding party. It is always cool to be invited into somebody's party. Even more so in a foreign country where everything about the party is new and exciting. I am not bragging, but I am pretty sure my mustache was the reason I was dancing and pretty sure Ben's sparse eleven-hair beard was the reason he ...

... un peu peur, d ailleur je n ai pas osé prendre le premier thai qu ils nous ont proposé car l eau n avait pas bouilli...Finalement quand les patates ( alu masala) ont été terminé on a mangé en suivant les Anglais qui eux étaient en Inde depuis le mois de novembre et étaient donc plus habitué que nous ! C était très bon et nous n avons pas été malade du tout jusqu'à présent ! C est étrange : des que l on a eu fini de manger c est au tour du seul homme qui parle un peu Anglais ...

... hours a day - Rajiv did the morning shift and I the afternoon. Our schedule was drinking a cup of tea first thing in the morning over a small fire, then having toast and jam with another cup of tea before we headed off for about a 3 hour ride. We would stop at noon for more tea, followed by lunch and a bit of siesta time and then off we went again for another 3 hours before making camp for the night, and of course more tea and dinner ...

... and secret stairs. Inside were more artefacts and dusty heirlooms then Indiana Jones' Temple of Doom! After checking in, we swiftly checked out the Hotel bar. It was like going into a dim Aladdin's Cave. It was rammed with more dust-laden artefacts making it a Krypton Factor Challenge to get from the small bar to the big widescreen surround sound tv and digi-box at the other end!! We drank beer and watched this American film until the manager came to tell us that ...

... to step inside for a few minutes before fleeing back outside to the relative comfort of leering Indian male stares. When you walk into the temple, you are required to take off your shoes. As you shuffle into the temple (and you must shuffle, lifting your feet too high is prohibited as you might inadvertently trod on a sacred rodent), you see hundreds of rats everywhere. A second longer and you realize you are looking at possibly thousands of rats, not ...

... was nothing to do with us but just to cause conflict in the festival season. This is not to say it didnt make our hearts race a little. The next day sw us at the rat temple first thing. it is 532 years old.We had to remove our shoes as in all temples. There werent as many rats as we imagined, this was to do with the time of day and the number of people there due to the festival season...tamsin wasnt complaining as she didnt want the good luck of a rat running over her feet!but even ...

... was the Karni Mata temple, whose devotees believe the hordes of resident rats are reincarnations to be nurtured... Barefoot is de rigeur in Indian temples and tiptoeing round the dim interior of this one, skin exposed to the dark furry shapes scurrying round me, was somewhat unnerving! India is truly a land of contrasts: a few days ago I sat in the sublime Golden Temple, today I was guest in a temple of revered rats...

We returned to Bikaner after the camel trek for a welcome hot shower. The following day we went out to the 'rat-temple' at Deshnok. For Nikki, most things in India seem to be either amazing or revolting. The rat temple, however, was amazingly revolting. Devotees of Karni mata believe that departing soud are saved from the wrath of Yama, the god of death by being re ...

... 150% more than the final agreed upon price. This is in contrast to shops with a ridiculous 300% mark-up. This once again highlights the business principle of integrity. Integrity of the merchant builds trust and a trust merchant can have higher volumes of sales. More sales equal higher profits. These small shop that rip off tourists will make a decent living but will never make it any bigger than that because they do not build a network of trust ...