Namaste from India! We arrived in Delhi almost a month ago in the 'warm season' and headed out on the golden triangle of Rajhastan - going to Agra - home of the Taj Mahal before moving onto Jaipur, Pushkar, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaiselmer the pink, the Holy Hindu, the blue and the sand cities. All with incredible hill top forts - chaotic bazaars selling everything from spices, Hindu mantra cds, saris to sweets, bindis, and miniature hindu gods.... As we travelled around and neared the desert, temperatures hotted up approaching the pre-monsoon 'hot season' By the time we arrived in Jaiselmer a week ago it was topping 40 degrees and we sat in a candle lit roof top cafe at dusk underneath an incredibly angry sky throwing sheet and fork lightening and biblical rain down on us!!
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