Gorakh Haveli
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... br> After breakfast my driver turned up he spent about 5 minutes praying before we left and touching all his idols on the dash board. What really concerned me was that every time we came to a sharp corner or a blind he would hoot, cross himself but didn't think to slow down or even wear his seat belt
Arrived back at the hotel it was great to have a swim. I took a walk up to the fort and it is quite amazing as people still live in all the ...
Making friends, building sand castles&bruised bums
... we were knackered, wondered why we were going anywhere, went back and asked for a room. After being put in a room that had someone’s stuff in, we went into another room, I had a shower and then not feeling so well, fell asleep! I woke up still not feeling great and put it down to not enough sugar/food. We chilled for a bit more before heading out at 5:30ish for a walk and some dinner. However, our walk more or less turned into a small shopping trip ...
Holi Desert!
... retired back to the hotel to shower and attemp to scrub of the pink dye that had stained Tom's chest and one eye! After that we decided the best thing to do would probably be sit back and watch events from the safety of the roof terrace with a cold beer!
The next day we headed out to the desert for our camal safari! Riding camels is fun but by lunch time we were glad to give our bottoms a rest and sit under a huge tree whilst the tour guide cooked us lunch. I watched ...
Sun, Sand & The Stars
... that had just took my mind of the pain I don't know. Regardless when I came to dismount at our camp that evening I found that I could not even do the normal trick of pulling my leg over with my arms. Instead (embarrassingly) my guide had to lift me up out of the saddle, plonking me on the sand. No word of a lie it was all I could do to remain standing and took a good 2-3 minutes before I could take my first steps. Normally the leg pain would subside within ...
In to the desert
... shirts are not quite proper attire for searing desert heat. I arrived back with a fabulous white Maharaja shirt with Ali-baba pants to match - "when in Rome...".
The jeep ride out in to the desert was epic stopping off at some ancient ruins en route.
We arrived at our final destination a mere 50km from the Pakistani border where our camels awaited to trek us off across the sand dunes to the most spectacular sunset ever. After ...
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