(For photos of Jaisalmer, click here)
Just arrived in Jaisalmer after a night in a bus, we are assailed by a dozen touts Hotels . Unfortunately for us, we had not booked a hotel in advance, and we were the only tourists on the bus, which has made us the center of all the attention ... As the video shows next shot with his phone by Thibault:
Given my bad mood morning, I was quickly annoyed screaming and I had a good shot order to reflect quiet ... We chose the final climb into the nearest jeep (we should not have), and we headed to a hotel was in any of our guides (strategic error ...) .
We arrived the Himalayan, a small guesthouse in comfort and relative cleanliness , but had the advantage of being in the heart of Jaisalmer Fort. Fortunately, we only paid 150roupies night (2 €), but we have done in the future ...
The reason we came to Jaisalmer was the same as all other tourists to make a " Camel Safari, ride a camel in the desert with a night under the stars.
From breakfast, the owner of the guesthouse offers us his camel safari, promising wonders to justify the fact that we had to pay double the price on the market ... of course, and as I said in my previous article, the Indians are full of resources for us to get our rupees ... So we booked for the next morning.
We spent the day walking through the narrow streets of the city - surely one of the finest ever seen. Fort resembles a gigantic sandcastle , and ambience of the city is reminiscent of southern Tunisia (all cities close to the desert should look like at the same time). We ended the day in an excellent Italian restaurant overlooking the fort, and took our pictures ritual.
FYI, I updated my album "Pump It Up in Asia", which you can view here .
the evening, we watched the sunset from the top of the fort. It was really wonderful to see the night fall on the city ...
The next morning, early morning awakening us to a jeep in the Thar desert Ishmael join our guide for the next two days.
Nous sommes donc partis sur nos chameaux, Johnny et Mr Magoo, pour une promenade de deux jours. Durant ces deux jours, nous avons trotté, nous sommes arrêtés dans des villages en plein milieu du désert, avons très bien mangé (sûrement les meilleurs repas que j’ai eu jusque là en Inde), et avons dormi à la belle étoile …
La nuit n’a pas été ce à quoi je m’attendais, il y avait beaucoup de vent, donc on a eu pas mal de rafales de sable… Enfin surtout Thibault parce que moi j’étais “ensarcophagée” dans mon sac à viande… Mais nous avions passé une super soirée to admire the stars ... then it compensates
Ishmael also told us stories that he be given a tip ... What we did not do, given the price we had paid ... But
Thibault gave him a small Eiffel Tower. The reaction of Ishmael? "What am I going to do?". Thibault was very disappointed. Me, I laughed a lot because the scene was funny!
Review of Camel Safari : mixed because we have not been entitled to many things we had been promised, the chameau, c’est sympa mais 2 jours c’est trop, et puis ça donne des courbatures; et nous n’avons pas vu tant de dunes de sable que ça… Mais au final, j’en garderai un très bon souvenir car c’est quelque chose d’unique…
Une fois rentrés et douchés, nous avons sauté dans un bus pour rejoindre Jodhpur, à 5h de Jaisalmer (et cette fois, nous avons réservé une chambre!).
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