Meera Mahal Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
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Golden city and camel trekking
Today has been a funny day. Ravi let Amy and me have a go driving along the highway, Amy just had a short go but I drove for quite a long time. Was fun, we got some funny looks from the locals! Had a laugh doing some dodgy Indian stylee overtaking and used the horn probably 4 times more than I ever have in the history of my driving! Oh and I failed to see some huge speed bumps in the mddle of the road coz I was too busy watching the cows and people as ...
Camping with Camels
... starlit sky and we awoke in the morning and got back on our camles for another hour or so before stopping for lunch and then returning. The trip was really good as it was at a relaxed pace with plenty of breaks so we (I) didn't get too bored/sore from the camels.
After getting back to town we went out for dinner in a restaurant recommended online, called Vyas Meal Service. It was really bizarre as we basically ate in the front room of a wizened old rajasthani grandma who cooked ...
"anythings is possibles" in Jaisalmer
... but nogotiating a good price wasn't easy and took over an hour, due to the fact that we wanted to do a camel safari through the guest house and decided to use this as our barttering tool. All the guest houses offer "totally non-touristic" camel safari's but some sound a lot better than others. We managed to get an original price of 2050 rs each for 2 nights hotel + one night dessert safari down to 1200 rs each. (around £16 each) The price included all meals, snacks ...
Riding across the desert
... 8217;. It was easy to get lost. We walked around looking for a restaurant, eventually finding a really nice rooftop spot where we could watch the sun go down. I thought that we has been retracing our steps on the way back, but I turned out to be completely wrong. A few dead ends and wrong turns later, we found our way back down to main gate and headed back to our hotel to get some rest before starting our camel safari the next day.
It would be just Emily, me, the ...
As far west into the Thar desert as we could
... passes!The Jain temples were the first we had seen
and appeared smaller than their Hindu equivalents. Also introspective with no large area for
communal worship and instead many individual areas.
Within the walls of the fort we found a cafe who's owner claimed australian citizenship and
was selling vegemite! We missed out on the vegemite but we were sold on a cookery lesson
with ...



