Hotel Panihari Jaisalmer

... looked at the stars and enjoyed being in the dessert! The next morning we had a very basic brekkie before getting back on the camels to meet the jeep again. We went through some remote villages and saw women all getting the water from the wells and lots of peacocks running around. When I stopped my camel to take a pic of a peacock (I was allowed to drive my own), it decided it didn’t want to be at the back so it ran (or the camel equivalent of that ...

... Indian people enjoy different things than we do.<br><br>I know I sound very cynical when I am writing about my experiences, but I really am having a good time. I just find it more fun to share my experiences in this way, rather than go on about how it's changing my life and yadiyada. But it is. The experiences I am having here are awesome and are impossible to put into words. Instead, I just share with you the funny stories and anecdotes.<br>

... we went there if they saw me. We didn't end up going. After a bit I made a comment about how we couldn't see the starts and then like magic a few appeared. We waited a bit longer before leaving. We stopped once more on the way back to Jaisalmer to look at all the stars after they had come out. He invited me over for dinner with him and his uncle. Both of them had come from the village and were living in the town working. His uncle owned a video shop ...

We arrived in Jaisalmer after a 10 hour bus ride from Udaipur. We arrived at Jodhpur at 3 am and decided to continue on rather than deal with an Indian city at that hour, a choice I later regretted as we heard great things about Jodhpur. However, all the cities in Rajasthan are uniquely special in their own way. Around 40 touts greeted us at the bus stop, it brought me back to Indonesia and I felt the wrath of India for the first time. We ...

after a 5 hour train ride to Delhi and then a 19 hour sleeper train we ended up in Jaisalmer... Jaisalmer was a new India. Probably what most people think of when they think of India...kind of like Aladdin. The whole city was kind of like a maze...an awesome sandstone maze! There is a huge fort that sits above the city. It was kind of a magical place...like you'd expect a flying ...

... open. The next morning it was really chilly but we had a very basic breakfast of porridge boiled eggs toast and fruit, their oranges are like Jamaica oranges. We decided that we would return to the coaches on the camels and we trekked for another hour and a half, it is amazing how that time really goes so quickly. Towards the end we actually did a fast canter which was really good fun and I found it much easier to contend with than the slower ...

... arrived with their picnics. We did not really enjoy the sunset because I dropped the camera in the fine sand and it started to act funny. After the steam in Costa Rica, the last thing for us to do is to drop it in the fire. The camel ran most of the way back and I should have listened to the Lonely Planet (aussi appellée la Bible chez Delo) when they advised to put a sports bra!! Very bumpy! Sean managed to fixed the camera going back to Jaisalmer. My hero!

... Mia. I politely excuse myself. It has taught him great english though. Over the next few days I rarely see him away from the teev. I asked him why he was in India - I had noticed there were many Nepalese men in Jaisalmer - it seems there is more work here. Although maybe it's the 30 channels of cable! We book a camel trek into the Great Thar desert after a bit of asking around. The owner promises a ******** free experience. It seems, like ...

... like no leather products or menstruating women allowed inside. The carvings were very intricate. The temples are still in use by the locals so a priest blessed us with rosewater probably only because he wanted a donation fee. The shoe shine street urchin boys brigade is back in action here and i was also chased around by a young, gay, mute, shoe repairer who told me during a game of charades and using sign language the terrible news that my right foot ...

... the bus but I'm too tired to face the return journey so I find a room and doze. Emerging at midday I find the mist has burned off to reveal a view as different from the desert as I could imagine: temple roofs tantalizingly glimpsed among the dark green, densely forested hills surrounding Nakki Lake; huge curiously-shaped smooth grey boulders dotted around the greenery; tall palm trees swaying in the ...