Camel Safari

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The safari was definitely my best experience so far. Not so much for the camel ride, which is actually quite uncomfortable and even painful, it's the fact that you're in a quiet place surrounded only by nature and that you fall asleep under the stars and wake up to see the sunrise. We were also lucky enough to have a guide who spoke reasonably good English so I was able to find out a lot about local traditions and customs. Some of the things he said I did not want to hear. Like the fact that girls get married off at 18 to a person chosen by their parents - which incidentally pay a lot of money for it - and that once married they are not allowed to work. But this is their culture and I have to respect it, no matter how different it is from mine.

We came back mid-afternoon on the second day, met a couchsurfer who took us to see a temple with an amazing view of the city and then I was considering boarding the night train to my next destination. But the desire to have a shower was too strong, so I checked in the same guesthouse where I was before, and just chilled there for the rest of the night. I slept like a baby.

Today I got my train ticket and I'm just hanging around town taking pictures, eating fruit, checking the internet and hopefully tomorrow morning I'll be in Jaisalmer. I have good feelings about that place. Let's hope I'm right.

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