Regent Hotel Bikaner

... Prakash Lake, etc are prime attractions of Udaipur city tours. A visit to Udaipur also provides tourists to explore famous Ranakpur Jain Temples and magnificent fort at Kumbhalgarh. Jodhpur is the second largest city of the state having attractions like Mehrangarh Fort, Umaid Bhawan Palace & Museum, Mandore Garden, Sardar Market, Jaswant Thada, etc. The city is fondly described as the Blue City ...

Another desert train took us blissfully to Bikner. We only came here for one reason..the rat temple. I am sure you have heard of the temple where Hindus worship because they believe storytellers are reincarnated as rats. <br> <br> So we had to go..... but first, Ben and I had to crash another wedding. Actually it was a procession to the brides house that takes place the night before the wedding. It is like a bachelor ...

... a worship ceremony for the elephant god Ganesh, before heading back to the guesthouse for more home cooking and fun with the family! Off to the Blue City tomorrow. Travel Advice: Staying with Prakash and his family was quite a unique experience. Give it a try...we heard he also runs a very solid desert safari. (Prakash; +919829630991; www.thardesertsafari.com; prakash@thardesertsafari.com)

... plus sympa pour demarer le safari chameaux. Les chamelier et les enfants du coins nous attendaient de pied ferme. Nous sommes acompagnés par un couple d'Anglais tres sympa. Tout le monde monte a chameaux sauf Aurelie et moi. En fait deux personnes vont tourner chacun leurs tour entre le chameau et la charrette tiré par..devinez ? Ben oui.. un autre chameau. Nous marchons un peu mais tres vite le rythme s acccelere et on rejoint la première charrette au dessus des couvertures ...

Hi Everyone Welcome to our India Trip part 10: Bikaner. Bikaner is one of the 3 great desert kingdoms of Rajasthan as well as Jodhpur and Jaisalmer with all 3 succeeding because of their location for passing trade. It's another old walled town with yet more ABF's, ABP's and ABRH **(see footnote for explanation!). After a 6 hour drive with Arif, this was the last journey we were to have with him. We had all got to know one another over the last 10 days, sharing magic ...

... things: - internet still very bad but I have been told it is like that in all India - my phone does not work but should be fixed soon - record of rickshaws telling me "rickshaw sir, rickshaw, whereare you goin'? rickshaw. where are you from, sir? rickshaw....": 5 differents in 4 minutes exactly, after leaving the hotel. As if I could not see them and ask them if I needed one.

... the local icecream, we probably wouldnt have it again!so we washed it down with a nice rasberry slice!!mmmm! That night we went to a farm dinner, we were taken by 4WD to meet our camel carts adn were taken to the farm. Here we got laid for the 2nd time in that day hussiesss!and made our way to the beautiful garden. We had our own band and dancer to enjoy!we wondered where anna and andrew had gone and when they returned they were in traditional rajistani dress on!we all ended up ...

... served in teapots and cups for disguise. Hot and sweaty, caked in sand, bum literally rubbed raw from the camel saddle, it was the finest cup of tea to ever grace my lips!<br><br><br><br> <br>So today I've been taking it easy (and trying to avoid sitting for any length of time, for obvious reasons...), getting pleasantly lost in the labyrinthine narrow streets of the Old City with it's gorgeous carved stone havelis ...

... and was an ex racing camel, so he got thrown about in his seat quite a lot to begin with - especially when we started trotting through the desert. We stopped at some great sights - including a Jain temple, a deserted town and some awe inspiring sand dunes. The best things about the trip was just chilling out and escaping India mayhem. Sleeping under the stars with just blankets to keep us warm was a great experience even if we were ...

... it is generally somebody unassuming. In this case the pickpocket was a boy ~7 years old. I had felt a hand in my pocket and I immediately pushed it away. The kid looked at me and began to deny that it was him. Yet I knew it was him because I did not say anything nor did I indicate anything other than look at him. Kid looked around and I caught him looking at what seemed like his older relative. Both of them ran off into the crowd. Yup ...