Hotel Jaisalgarh Jaisalmer

... was pretty good as it taught us a lot and told us stories and legends about the fort and palace which were really interesting. It took us a couple of hours wandering through and the views from the top of the palace were really impressive of the golden city. <br> <br>We then went back to the swimming pool, we couldn't resist as it was really hot and we had to take advantage so we had another chilled couple of hours lazing by the pool. We have just been back to ...

... ridden Camels before in the Morroccan Sahara, and Eric was a dual Tunisia- French Citizen.<br> <br>Our guides walked ahead of us. Initially, Bapu and I went first. As we had three camel wallas and four camels, they tied a nose rope for the last camel on to the tail of the third. Our caravan was under way. I tried to snap a few shots as we lumbered along through the desert scrub brush heading toward some distant dunes. Each attempt nearly ended my ride ...

... in India wonder the country performing circus acts for money. Walking through town, we were lucky enough to stumble upon one and to our surprise it entailed a 4-5 year old girl tight rope walking. My heart skipped a beat when I saw she would be the one in the family doing the tricks..but she pulled in off and earned herself a 20 rupee tip from us!! <br><br>Now off to Jodphur, weather report says it's about 22 degrees cooler at 80 degrees!! Ahhh.....sounds nice!! <br><br><br>

... attention span of gnats and because our music was being challenged by another music source somewhere in town, we left the impromptu booze cruise on wheels and went searching out the other noise. I won't go into detail, mostly cause I cant really remember but I do know we crashed a wedding..a very traditional Indian wedding...and were somehow deposited back safely in our beds, all too close to the snoring Don ...

... a camel that has mis-behaved before, come to think of it I don't think I have ever met a camel before). We rode through sand dunes for a couple of hours before going to a well to water the camels and I had a go at pulling up the bucket from the well. You would expect being in the desert to be stiflingly hot, but there was a cool breeze today which made the journey rather pleasant. We arrived at our camp at around 6 in the evening and the temperature had already started to ...

... cheese which looked really yucking to me as it looked very orangy. M wanted something non Indian with less oil, and quite appreciated the change. I enjoyed my self mixed egg fried rice which omelette was shared with M. They are more generous portion than Hotel Royal. The lunch place was the rooftop of some "Sunset View" Restaurant overlooking the town, the desert to the west filled with hundreds of wind turbines. Jaisalmer ...

... Latha and I crawled into our tent. The next morning I went to see how the kids where doing and mom was telling dad to quit taking all the blankets and to get out of the sand. What a way to wake up. Dad came out the worst for wear with his camel riding wound, but not suprisingly, he also enjoyed the camels the most! We picked up some textiles thanks to mom's bartering skills, and were off to Jaipur on a night train.

... a hip replacement in later life is gone baby gone. Not the smoothest ride. After the fist hour or so, we mercifully stopped in a village for a stroll. Within moments we were swarmed by children asking for "rupees" "school pens" "bonbons"....a couple of them were not right in the head. Felt a little like we had stepped into a Terry Gilliam film....except with a more pungent odor. We came to the other side of the village....and "Wow, look at that"...our camels were waiting ...

... The boy was working away in the kitchen when we went to leave. I told the father on the reception that we thought his son was very special, the guy just grinned and we don't know if he understood any English. We made our way down the stairs very quickly leaving the rooftop and getting to the ground floor only to be given a farewell wave from the boy who had miraculously appeared in front of us in the flesh on the ground floor in the blink of an eye, as though ...