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Jodhpur - It Doesn't Get Any Cooler
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Today is a day of backtracking across the sands, as I return from the edge of nowhere at Jaisalmer, to the edge of nowhere else at Jodhpur.
If anything, the "Deluxe" bus on the return journey was actually less deluxe than the previous. Once difference was that I could not work out why my legs were so tight on the return journey from the two hour mark onwards. Then it occured to me that there was a reason for it - the "Bra Effect" from riding the Camel. You know, 'lift and separate'.... ouch.
Six hours on a dusty road in a sweltering bus is hard work. You need to let your mind wander if possible, otherwise you go slightly batty from the heat and bodies around you. There is sleeping, if you can. There is a form of meditation that I'm trying to master where you try to close your eyes and switch off for a while. The blaring Hindi music tends to help. I can go about half an hour thinking about nothing, without actually being asleep. The third option is another form of meditation - the Ipod.
You somehow hope that because you are moving east away from the desert that it will be cooler in Jodhpur, but its a false hope as its just as hot in the big smoke. It is certainly a struggle that I didn't anticipate, and I have had to lash out by spending an extra few dollars on an air-conditioned room so I can string together more than 90 minutes sleep.
I am struggling with the heat. The cool of the north beckons, but so does the towns of Pushkar and Jaipur along the way. I will be cutting my jaunt through Rajasthan short as reality is that I'm not as crazy as I could have been.
The restaurant where I was staying is exceptionally good, and the older waiter remembered me from my previous visit with Denise a few nights ago. He gave me a rundown on the processes of the Indian justice system. One week earlier a German woman was abducted and raped by an autorickshaw driver and accomplice, while visiting the Palace for a drink. Thankfully her screams alerted some villagers from nearby, who saved her from being choked to death. The villagers looked after her and alerted the Police that they had broken the windscreen of the autorickshaw. They speedily nabbed them both. The woman returned to the village a few days later with gifts of food and fruit to say her thanks to them for saving her life. According to the wairter, a group of Police beat up both of the men, and they'll be in jail for life.
Personally I can't argue with justice like that.
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