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Delhi and Deserts.

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March 23rd 2014
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Hello you lovely lovely peeps. Yo. Happy Sunday! Just a quick update from lil ol me. Sorry it has been so long since my last post, I have been oddly busy. Well.....Delhi. I am not going to go in to huge details about Delhi as I went in to great detail on my last post about the joys of a big Indian cities. I observed that even among the filth and poverty you could find beauty and the same applies... Read Full Entry



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Dalpat and Guman. Dalpat (who also goes by the name Delboy) is a lovely and gentle chap. He owns the whole company. Guman has possibly the best mustache in India.
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Mahander making Chapati. Love a bit of Chapati here.
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Jalam cooking. He is the nephew of Dalpat and is a hardworking chap. He always poses for pictures so it is hard to get a candid shot....
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The chaps bedding down for the night. If not out in the desert they sleep in the basement of the hotel. I was going to try and wash the pillows but cant bring myself to.
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I heard feeding cows gives you better Karma, so I have befriended this one.
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I asked why one of the rooms had a TV that doesn't work. I was told "it was just for show". Now I clean the TV that is just for show. I am becoming Indian.
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Cleaning a Camel Saddle, a real pleasure for me to get so close to such an object of beauty.
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Just realised that I haven't taken any pictures of Jaisalmer so here you are.
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It is really rather lovely.
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And in the evening when the seventy five and a half million tourists go home it returns to a working and living place.



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