The main reason for going to Jodhpur was really a stopover to get to the desert town of Jaisalmer, the next stop on our trip. The first evening we arrived we were walking back to our hotel after dinner, when a young Indian boy we’d never seen before pulled up next to us on his motorbike to say hello. When he asked if we were English, for some reason this particular time we pretended to be French but he was having none of it…he just replied ‘no you’re not, you’re English and your names are Michael and Katy’. We were completely taken aback but apparently we shouldn’t have been… everyone in the tourist industry will know everything about us and be tracking our movements around India, warning friends to be ready for us in case there could be a sale involved! In this case it was a camel safari but unfortunately for this guy we had already booked one through our hotel.
The said camel safari was absolutely brilliant! Lead by our local guide ‘Jonny’ we spent 3 days and 2 nights in the desert. We rode for a couple of hours in the morning through what was mostly arid scrubland, before stopping during the heat of the day for Jonny to rustle us up vegetable curry on a little camp fire. Then in the afternoons we visited a couple of desert villages before riding on till we reached some picturesque sand dunes where we slept the night under the stars on our camel blankets! Apart from in the villages we didn’t meet another person and it wasn’t long before mike, fully clad in his turban, was galloping with his camel, secretly fancying himself as an Arabian prince. That is, until the chaffing got too bad and he had to dismount and take 10 minutes respite…the camels were insanely uncomfortable!! Overall though we absolutely loved it, a definite highlight of India so far.
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| Campfire cooking |
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| Toilet stop! |
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