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Published: February 3rd 2008
So after traveling India for 8 month I have finally made it to Rajasthan! Now I too will be able to talk to all those hip young people traveling India! Because until now my destinations within India mostly drew blank faces... Everybody seems to go to Rajasthan, this is one of the reasons I wasn't drawn to it! I feared the hassles that accompany such an amount of tourism... But it was time and I al...
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Ornella
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Trains!!
I loved Jaisalmer but then I went 16 years ago and arrived by train (not a touristy choice as the train just has wooden seating and the floor has a ton of sand from it all being blown in from the desert! But as a teenager I thought it was great, apart from the sand in your sandwich, lol!) Consequently very few touts, who concentrate on the bus stations, if I remember rightly. I think we wondered around till we found a suitably small place to stay where we ended up going for 5 days in the desert with a man whose main occupation was of smuggler, drugs into India, alcohol into Pakistan, can't quite remember the exact details! But made for fabulous campfire stories and it was only him and my friend and I! Maybe we were just lucky with our experiences. Or 16 years makes a difference. I remember, weavers and people sewing those classic Rajhastani mats but no entertainers! And not many tourists! (I think it was end of Feb or start of March, not sure!) Another place I really liked was Gwalior. Actually loads of other places. We leave on Thursday, can't wait! Take care!