Holy Cow! A Day Around JaisalmerLake Gadhisar We wake to a chorus of soft cooing doves, barking dogs and the melodious mooing of sacred cows.The hotel heats it’s water by fire as do most of the ancient buildings in the fort. This causes a very slight acrid, smokey smell. Instead of wood, most fires are made with cow dung.We meet for breakfast on our hotel rooftop and then head out …
Train to the Blue City of JodhpurTrain to JodhpurWe are up at 5:00am and off to the train station at 6:00am for a 7:00am train to Jodhpur. The train is not full so it’s easier to spread out. My tummy is a little off so I just have a banana and orange juice for breakfast.This time the train washroom is surprisingly clean but I still have issues with squat …
Camel Safari and a Wild Night in the Thar DesertJaisalmer and the Deepak Hotel Jaisalmer is a charming fort city…known as The Golden City because of the gold colour of the sandstone from which it is built. As we get off the train at Jaisalmer station we can see the fort sitting high on a sandstone outcrop overlooking the newer part of the city. We all pile into a jeep with …
Delhi Belly and One Long Train RightScary Time at New Delhi Restaurant At 6pm our tour group meets at the hotel for our pre-tour briefing. There are six people in our tour group plus our guide, Garima. With us are Marlene, a retired nurse and her husband Jim, a retired pharmacist who are from Virginia, USA; Paul, a businessman from Cork, Ireland; and Jasmine, a software developer from Manchester, England. …