by Berit
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| Shades of camels in the Thar desert... |
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| Our guide and me! |
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| That's how it looks to ride a camel! Sometimes Vincent's camel wanted to itch his back but he was also sharing his sweat with him in the same time... |
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| Beautiful dunes |
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| Waves in the dunes |
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| More beautiful dunes... |
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| Us! |
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| Walking on the dunes... |
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| On the way to the sunset and dinner place |
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| Jumping in the sand! |
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| Enjoying the sunset |
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| Preparing the delicious dinner |
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| Jaisalmer and its huge fort |
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| The fort at sunset |
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| The "Cristo Redentor" attitude by Vincent |
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| Streets of Jaisalmer |
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| A "haveli", a typical house from India |
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| A nice site close to Jaisalmer |
After a 6 hour bus ride where me, Vincent, a big Indian woman and a small Indian man shared two seats in the bus, we were very happy to arrive in Jaisalmer, a desert city close to the border of Pakistan. The most popular activity in this city, except getting lost in narrow, labyrinth streets, is to get on a camel and hump off into the desert. We didn't want to miss the main attraction, so we booked a "sunset trip" in the desert. After a short car ride, three camels, one for each off us and one for the guide were waiting for us. Vincent got to ride his own, while the guide was holding mine. I started insisting on riding on my own too, since I had just as much experience riding camels as Vincent (which is zero experience...) The guide explained in broken English that if I really wanted to I could, but he had bought the camel a few hours earlier that day, and he didn't know if it would be jumping, running or biting, or all of the three. So I stopped insisting and we started the ride.
The further we went the nicer the sand dunes became. It was really beautiful and peaceful. Vincent did quite good riding his camel, except he kept trying to make it move faster, but the camel refused. Slowly, and little by little we got to the end point of the ride, some nice dunes with a good view of the sunset. While we strolled around on the dunes our three (!) guides prepared dinner on a bonfire. Rice, curry and chapati (bread) on one little fire, everything made from scratch!(Something to learn for us norwegians with our hotdogs over the fire...?) Good food, bonfire in the desert and a sky full of stars; we were feeling very happy to be on holiday.
Liker! ALLE bildene og den koselige historien om dagen med kamelene. Og til og med fikk dere CHAPATI! Nam. Jeg digger chapati. Det spiste vi i Uganda også. DET må vi lage når dere kommer hjem. Kos dere videre, og lykke til med oversettelsen Vincent! ;)
ReplyDeleteSmil fra Ida, som sitter ved skrivebordet inne og ser på rufseværet ute!
Hi.
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to see all the beautiful pictures and to hear much more of what you have been doing. Enjoy your stay in Nepal.
Love
Kirsti & Einar
Fantastiske bilder!:) Kos dere masse videre!
ReplyDeleteFørst nå fant jeg bloggen :)
ReplyDeleteFor et eventyr dere har og for noen nydelige bilder!
Kos dere masse masse!
Klem fra Hannah
Hello!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures from the dunes. It looks like you could write a little book about funny / difficult bus - and taxi transportation ;o)
Hug,
Heidi