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Published: June 22nd 2006
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We got to Jaislamer and hurray hurray actually managed to find the hostel we wanted to go to without hassle. It was great to have Magnus along for the journey, as he was full of questions for Bengali.
The hostel was fab - we got a room with a balcony over looking the POOL! We were just so excited! Seeing as we were in the middle of a heat wave at it was 42 degrees we had to try the pool out straight away! Then we went for dinner and I leave Irene on her own for ten minutes and she causes havoc!! Some random Indian youngsters came up to her at the table and started asking loads of questions, then started "You have lovely eyes", "What do you like about me?", "Can I sit down" etc. so Irene basically wasn't entertaining them but without being rude. Then the manager came over and told them to stop hassling her - this almost caused a stand up row with all the young fellas and the manager! But they left and everything calmed down until Bengali, the alcho, called Irene over to give her a piece of his mind and tell her that
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Irene and Magnus in action! he has told her time and time again not to encourage this and it was her fault and she will get raped! What a joy he is. He was really out of order this night, more so than he normally has been. But I just had to tell him to get lost. Thank God we could go to our balcony and just lose him.
The next day though we went up into the fort, we were being ethical staying outside as the fort is a severely endangered monument, and hotels inside it do increase pressure on its already taxed infrastructure. It is really fantastic up there and we also saw the filming of a Bollywood movie which was really cool! We got to see the good scenes of all the dancing.
We had lunch in a cafe - the 18th July - and met the owner who is the funniest Indian, he basically ordered for us if he didn't like our choice, spoke in the most messed up Indian-Australian accent ever...so everything was bloody this and bloody that! We just had to laugh the whole time. We also met this mad English-Dutch girl who was telling us about this village
she had visited just because she wanted to build a wall out of dung....
We booked our camel safari with Ganesh Travels as we were sick of the hassle from the dude in our hotel.
They picked us up in a jeep outside our hotel and then brought us into the desert in a 4x4 Safari truck. We headed along these wide paved roads through the desert for a while and then literally went off road into the middle of the desert to this remote village. It was really amazing to see how people live, no electricity, no running water - just them and the camels for company! The kids were well up on digital photography, they loved getting their picture taken and then being able to see it … again and again - they really never got tired of that game! Then, we went for a sit down in the yard and this enterprising old man came along with his sack (to keep them cold, well as cold as you get in the desert) full of drinks which of course we all desperately needed at that stage.
We then headed off to the sand dunes and got our camels
(which they actually stole off the other group!), and went around the sand dunes for sunset. Camels aren’t the easiest animals to control as they especially love eating, Irene’s just kept sticking her head into any type of vegetation she found. Mine would just take off when he felt like it and then wouldn’t move faster than a walk when I wanted him to move.
We then went and met the other camel group for dinner and had curry and chapati, eaten with our hands of course! Our friend, the drink dispenser also came along but he ran out half way along the group! We spent the rest of the time either dodging these huge bloody black beetles or picking them up and throwing them as far away as possible. That didn’t seem to work so well though as they scarpered right back up to us.
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