Blogs from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 8

Geo: 26.9118, 70.9127The train trip from Delhi to Jaisalmer is 921 km and took about 17 ½ hours. Sounds daunting but we slept a lot and the time seemed to go by without incident. We traveled in an AC2 sleeper car. This means there are 4 berths – 2 upper and 2 lower per sleeper area. India Rail provides clean sheets; pillows and very warm blankets. The toilets are ok, in that they only get used by the passengers in that car and therefore, stay relatively clean. 'Clean' is a very relative term in India. You have to just let it go.Once in Jaisalmer we got settled in at the Shahi Palace. We had a yummy lunch on the rooftop restaurant – great view of the old fort. We then set out exploring. We first went ... read more

On dit que le Rajasthan est un pays desertique, mais je trouve que c'est aussi un pays de belles roches: au debut il y avait beaucoup de marbre blanc, par apres beaucoup de gres rouge. Les clotures sont faites de lattes de gres rouge! Notre route est depaysante a souhait: de la terre rougeatre, des beaux arbres parasol (babuls), de troupeaux de vaches bizarres (gris et noir, avec de bosses enormes sur leur dos et de cornes qui sont de fois teintes en rouge ou bleu royal), de chameaux nonchalants qui mangent les feuilles des arbres et nous regardent imperturbables, de petits troupeaux de biquettes assez grandes, menees par leur berger en pantalon blanc (drap nouille entre ses jambes) et beau turban orange, et de temps en temps le sari flamboyant d'un femme qui transporte sur ... read more

Driving all day through the searing heat of the arid Thar desert, we eventually reached our destination around 9pm - Jaisalmer, the golden city. Just before our departure chris was more than happy to discover that a young travel sick child had thrown up on his backpack! Upon arrival we were met at the bus station by a jeep which was to take us to Hotel Peacock having been told back in Johdpur by a tout that this place was cheap, brand new (having only opened 20 days prior to our arrival) and owned by a Dutch lady . . we were later to discover that none of this was true and that they had no rooms available! We were assured that there were rooms available at their sister hotel just around the corner, so together ... read more

Rajastan, centro turistico y de tierras rojas, o eso nos decian algunos turistas que ibamos encontrando or el camino...sobre lo de turistico tenian razon, pero sobre lo de tierras rojas... bueno, no es lo que nos esperabamos. Despues de aprender a cocinar algunos platos tipicos de la india y dejar Udaipur, una ciudad que desde el hotel Panorama tuvimos unas increibles vistas fuimos a Monte Abu. Situada entre colinas y lugar de fin de semana para los indios, pudimos alojarnos en un hotel no muy comfortable pero sin que con un dueno muy majo que nos trato muy bien. Entre colinas, hoteles e indios visitamos uno de los templos Jainies mas impresionantes que hemos visto hasta ahora y encima gratuito (... ya vemos que donde solo hay turismo de indios las cosas son gratuitas o no ... read more

Week 3! Hi, sorry for the lack of updates on here, Jodhpur was not the most amazing experience. Rhian was sick for 2 days there and there's not a lot to do there except go to the Fort (which is amazing!) We left there on a bus bound for Jaisalmer, 6 hours on a half decent coach that as the journey went on got more and more full to the point of collapse! It was fun though, buying fried snacks through the window, chatting to the guy in front of us about Enrique inglesias (Enreek..) and pop music in general. He was heading to Jaisalmer on a job for the Indian Air Force! Anyway we arrived at around 4pm and before we were even off the coach we were getting accosted by tuk tuk drivers and ... read more