We began our journey to Udaipur from Jaisalmer at the crack of dawn from our camel safari camp. We were sooooo tired, thinking that we would finally get a good night sleep in the desert away from all the blaring music and 5am calls to prayer we forgot about the whole stray dog issue and listened to dogs scrap over territory and bits of food all night. Needless to say the road to Udaipur was mainly spent sleeping in the back of a car! A few interesting highlights from the drive though 1. when we stopped for lunch at a local [View Full Entry]

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We reluctantly said goodbye to our sanctuary at Jodphur and hit the road to Jaisalmer (further west), a 6 hr journey, us now being a bit bus shy, by a little car with white seat covers and no A/C - Roads, cows, horns, desert parchland stretching off into the distance. Every other minute we passed some sort of military vehicle - if India and Pakistan kick off with each other in this region shortly- remember you heard it here first. *Kat's note - for the animal lovers Im including my observations on the animals of India - as mentioned before the [View Full Entry]

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We have actually made it to India - this trip we have spoken about for the past 4 months is now a reality and not some intangible idea. We flew from London to Delhi via Zurich, and thank God had no issues with our trip as a record snow storm hit London shutting down most of the city! We arrived in Delhi at about 1am where my friend Manica's father - Dinesh - picked us up at the airport - they are kindly letting us stay with them during our stay in Delhi and it has truly been a Godsend! We [View Full Entry]

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