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Bikaner - Jaisalmer
... it is a prayer and it is it in a chant. They've mordenize it and it is like a remix.
Usually I will be fast asleep in the back of the car next to the luggage after I changed my seats with my other friend. This spot fast became my favorite niche to sleep with that song as a lullaby. It is very easy for me to fall asleep especially with all the late nights we have been keeping. I barely registered the bad conditions of the road we had traveled on. If I get waken up by ...
Making friends, building sand castles&bruised bums
5th Sept - Jaisalmer
We all awoke about the same time, and were soon chatting away about anything and everything. We were in carriage, 2A which means there are bunks of 2, in a 4 person section, with a curtain to separate you from the walk way through the train with AC. With your bed, you got a blanket, pillow and sheets. The toilet was what I was expecting and what I have been told; a hole in the ground with a tube leading down to the ...
Camel Safari
... side trip to Jaisalmer was a chance to go on a camel safari and sleep under the stars. I booked a one night trip through the highly recommended and very friendly folks at Shahi Palace.
Along with a nice German couple (also road cyclists) Emmi and Johannes, the journey started with a cold and dusty jeep ride to Badabagh, the site of royal cenotaphs where the former rulers of Jaisalmer were cremated with their respective wives. Next we were driven ...
Sun, Sand & The Stars
... for forcing camel treks. They were known locally as the Jaisalmer camel mafia. They didn't worry about building up a bad name for themselves as they simply changed what they were called every year to avoid a bad reputation. Whilst they didn't have any camels of their own they would claim to run their own tours but simply send people out on tours run by other people including the company we went with. A couple of weeks previously our guy had taken 3 Swedish girls out ...
For forty percent
... the innermost city perimeter -- drew a somewhat twisted pleasure in revealing the shocking truth to passing tourists, sardonically droning "Your guide gets 40% of all the money you spend."
Not that anyone on either side of the transaction seemed to entertain any qualms about the admission. Passerbys would continue on their path, unfazed, though possibly because they spoke little English. Why would they need to? The locals speak just about every European language, ...