Hotel JeetMahal Jaisalmer

... that the advert lied when we got to Jaiur. The first thing to hit you is the pollution which stings the back of your throat, then it's the smell of sewage, even worse than the smell in Korea and then its the constant hassle from touts. I got my hostel and arranged for a rickshaw to take us around the city the next day for about 4 pound between 4 of us. Theres loads to do ad see in Jaipur the highlights included the monkey temple which was a climb up a big hill to the north of the ...

... green, red, yellow- the colors of this subcontinent, docile eyes staring out at you from underneath immense, downturned eyelashes. monkeys have the run of the towns and temples come dusk, jumping with simian agility from rooftop to blue rooftop, or just contemplating another sunset over the lake palace of udaipur from their vantage point of the tip of a sacred hindu temple column. jaisalmer has that temporal, shifting impermanence and rugged outpost ...

... group was feeding. A dog seemed to be guarding the access to the birds, first chasing off a cow and then his wary eyes on M. Our driver "talked" to the dog and asked M to go ahead, "no problem" he said. The european lady then commented "if the distance get too close, it's a problem". Well, M is aiming for a great shot :) The lady begun her wary eyes on M, while I was busy catching the cranes taking off ...

Vendredi 9 janvier 2009 Ce matin levée 5H15 pour prendre le chai à 5H45 puis rickshaw à 6H00 pour prendre le train de 7H00 dans une gare un peu excentrée de Bikaner. Encore 7H de train. Eh oui c est moins cher mais ça se merite pour l instant on a toujours pas payé le billet et je crois qu on ne le paiera pas ! Finalement le train n est partis qu'à 8H15 donc on aurait vraiment pu dormir plus ! dommage on était si bien sous les 2 couvertures ! Comme dit Mathilde soit on ne peut pas dormir ...

After our last blog we decided to go and find ourselves some dinner. Recomended by our hotel, we decided to try out this resturant which turned out to be just our style...romantic. I should first tell you all that the number of dinners by candlelight, romantic settings, double beds, bubblebaths and whole 'just for two' moments would be enought to last any couple a lifetime. So when we saw this restaurant with cusions and kneeling tables out on one of the turrets of the ...

Jaislamer is a small but interesting place, boiling hot in the day, freezing cold at night. While it is not exactly tiny, it is rather small for Indian standards. A good portion of the people actually live inside the old Fort, which is rapidly deteriorating, but remains the center of the town. The industry here is mostly tourism from what I gathered, and the bread and butter of the trade is ...