Blogs from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 28

My goodness the fort here is unlike any other it is really lived in by the locals and full of guest houses and small hotels although the open sewers tell their own story!!!!!!!!I gather it is slowly being eroded by over population and destroyed by too many tourists which is one reason we stated outside of the fort. Last night we went on a trip with some fellow tourists in our hotel who were from belgium and france.We firstly were driven into the desert ina jeep a dusk and then wandered through a typical desert village.Katie and I felt very uncomfortable doing this as it all felt very artificial and the villages seemed to perform as characters on stage.We arrived at a remaote area and were faced woth a line of tick ridden camels! Yes we ... read more

Got a bit to catch up on... whoops! WE've been travelling for the last few days with a Irish/American couple, Gio and Cindy who have kept us giggling constantly when things on board camels got too much, back to that in a minute. We met them on the bus from Udaipur to Jodphur and, as always, it's the near death experiences that bring people together. We had 2 crashes; one when a lorry went into the back of us, (it was resolved by our driver getting out of the bus and lamping the driver of the lorry through his window) and later on we drove into a lorry that had stopped to avoid another crash! nothing too drastic but meant we made some new friends! Jodphur was wonderful. The huge fort rising up above the blue ... read more

Got more familiar with camels for a couple of days, they have the most bizarre mating call; they loll their tongue out of their mouth and bubble air through it like a wet balloon. Whatever works for them. ... read more

So, I am now pleased to report that it has officially been 2 days...and I am festival and parade free. That's right folks, I have not seen a band or a king or an elephant parading around it well over 48 hours. But, notice I did not say camel. The truth is that I have also not left Jaiselmer, a town hundreds of kilometers west of Dehli where I took that lovely train ride that arrived on Thursday. It is now Sunday. This is officially my favorite stop on my trip...and if it were not that I am flying out of Mumbai on Wednesday night...I might have just taken up temporary residency. To be quite frank, I am not sure why. Perhaps its the sandstone of the fort that is mildly reminiscent of Jerusalem. Perhaps it ... read more

Despues de pasar casi 9 horas en un camion de polleros por fin llegue a Jaisalmer, ciudad al este de Rajasthan muy cerca de la frontera de Pakistan. El camion fue un poco desagradable ya que aqui en India les encanta eruptar y el senor que me toco al lado al parecer es el campeon de su colonia, no paraba. Llegando a Jaisalmer me di a la tarea de buscar hotelito, encontre uno que se llama Artist Hotel, el cual se trata de que la mitad de las ganacias que sacan se van para musicos locales de la zona, ya que al parecer muchos musicos en la india en estan abandonando su profesion ya qu no les deja y generaciones de musicos se estan perdiendo. El hotel no es nada despampanante y tiene solo 10 cuartos, ... read more