Nachana Haveli A Heritage Hotel Jaisalmer

... a massive sandstone fort which dominates the city. The fort is the only fort which still has people living inside but is under threat from tourism and overcrowding. The fort is really cool, all the buildings are carved from the sandstone and the detailing is really impressive. The fort has tiny alleyways which are full of shops, restaurants and bazaars selling the usual gear. We wandered around and the fort and found somewhere to eat, food wasn't great but the ...

... legs. Ali then again cautioned me to lean WAY BACK, then quietly and a bit apprehensively began to raise the rope attached to Bapu's nose. I was leaning back as far as my lower vertabrae would allow and had a death grip on the rear rope. Ali's hand released the nose tether and Babu's butt shot skyward. I swear his butt went up about 8 feet into the air. I am now virtually standing straight upand down, 6 feet off the ground, held in place by the short metal ...

... it over a bit more, he snapped back with " you are wasting your time and my time to." After some reflection, I think his attempt was to say we are wasting time and needed to book now, now later...but ohh no, I didn't take it that way. Being fed up with his sales pitch and comment, I immediately snapped back at him...telling him we would stop wasting our time and his and that we wouldn't go on any safari with him, I grabbed my room key and stormed up the stairs. I would ...

Up at the crack of dawn to catch our bus to Jaiselmer. The bus wasn't that bad other than I had to keep sharing my sleeper with randoms who kept waking me up as I had a bottom bunk, Nicola was ok though up top. We arrived in Jaiselmer around 11 o'clock and were greeted by Baba from the recommended guest house Rajdhani who took us in a rickshaw to check in. After a short discussion we decided to spend the night in the desert, so we chilled out for a few hours before jumping ...

... companion was 20 steps ahead so just a harrasment on a young lady I supposed. Just wandered off in the small narrow alleys within the fort (free entrance). Don't worry about getting lost as they all lead back to the central square where the entrance to the museum was. The alleys are intermingled with street vendors, free roaming cows and their dung. ...namaste..anyohaseyo...hello...have a look.. Hundreds of stalls selling ...

... kids as they were affectionately known) were excited and we booked a two day, one night camel safari into the desert. On the way out to the starting point we stopped at a couple of small desert villages, and to say the least, they were a little depressing as there has been no rain in a long time and everything is just...well, a desert. After mounting our camels for the first time, we realized that it was quite a ...

... soul-warming. For our overnight trip to the desert we had two forgiving camels and two lovely camel drivers, Laxman, an English speaking school teacher, and Kesiriya, a true tribesman. The Great Thar desert is mainly sand and low hardy scrubs with acacias and occasional other lone-standing trees dotting the landscape. Then there are freqent stretches of open waves of sanddunes, sculpted into meandering rivets by the force of the of the wind. We bumped ...

... AU$2 and great because you eat it with your hands, i like the caveman vibe of it and wonder why nobody does these in Australia. The local joints we tried were all closed so we chose a rooftop restaurant called Kalapua?? next to the upmarket Saffron. The kitchen was family run and i noticed the son, a very handsome and beautiful child of about 8 years old dressed in white and wearing a shawl and kohl around his eyes have a good look at us when we entered the ...