Raj Vilas Palace Hotel Bikaner

... of her clansmen's sons died while drinking from well, Karni Mata asked Yama, the god of death, to bring him back. Yama told her that she was told was too late, the boy had already been reincarnated. Karni Mata (who had preformed miracles in the past and was already known as a mystic) struck up a deal with Yama. She asked that if the boy and all future desendants of her clansmen from then on, could be reincarnated as rats. Yama agreed, and ...

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... filming...(Ben here, I never agreed to any facial hair contest because I know I can't grow hair but Dave loves himself so I will continue to let him sing his own praises)<br><br> Next morning, we hired the world slowest auto rickshaw(like a tuk-tuk with a lawnmower engine) to drives us 35 km into the desert to the rat temple. What the hell it was cheap right, and we were stoked to see another must see sight. Our ...

... des que lui a fini les chameliers peuvent manger ce qui reste (c est a dire pas grand chose). Ils ne parlent pas du tout Anglais et il est donc tres difficile de communiquer avec eux. Les paysages ne sont pour l instant pas tres desertique : il y a un peu de végétation et quelques arbres, des poteaux électriques aussi et le seul indien du groupe qui parle Anglais utilise un portable...c est drole ! Nous avons ensuite repris la route ( en chameau cette fois pour Aurelie et ...

... two camel drivers, senior and junior, and guide were all multi talented and pitched in and cooked, collected brush for the fire, washed up, set up camp etc. The Thar desert is mainly desert scrub and brush and not much in terms of sand dunes, except for when we made camp both nights. The region is dotted with many small villages which we rode through and the kids would come out and wave to us. We were obviously the main attraction ...

... air conditioning unit was going to be fixed for us and we would be able to return to our room in half an hour. Excellent! 2 hours and several beers later and our room was still teeming with sweaty Indians trying to fix the air con. The pair of us were showered in sweat as the air con in the bar was as effective as us blowing on our own arms to cool down. Dinner was revolting yet, amazingly, only our first disastorous meal since we've been in India. My food was ok ...

... They scurry across the floor, run in and out of holes in the walls, and hang around drinking out of huge saucers of milk. It is considered good luck if one of the rats runs over your feet. Thousands of pilgrims come here, buying sugary Indian sweets from the shops outside as Prasad, an offering to the rats of the temple. Hunched old women in colourful saris leave their sweets on the shrine for the rats to eat, while bringing her hands together in a ...

... there were plenty of rats to see. There were some markets outside which we wandered for a short while , Lou batered her way down on some bangles which caught her eye and did well for herself. Next we were back in the cars to another temple, it was one of the jain religion. Women are not allowed inside if they are menstruating and nothign of leather is allowed either.we learnt about the religion breaifly and wandered around....we are starting to get out -templed. We got a few ...

... as rats. As with all temples you leave your shoes by the door. So we walked barefoot over old food nad droppings on the temple floor, where the rats gather to drink milk from dishes or eat the blessed food. I'm glad that it's considered a great privlige to have one run over your feed as quite a few of the scabby souls scampered over whenever I stopped to take a photos.

... Dinner ----- Dinner was at another palace. I forget the name but it was a British designed palace. Basically it was designed by a British architect and built with Indian laborers. The architecture is a mix of Western Europe and Indian. While it was impressive to look at, it was also quite cold and museum like. It felt a lot like a boring museum or a bank vault. Regardless the food was great as it was nice to get some continental food for a change.