Well my dogs,
are barking. I must have walked about 10km today. From what I have seen so far
today Dehli is actually pretty lovely. The metro is extremely good and as I
mentioned to Gareth I think we should get one in 
I got off the
train at 630 and nipped to Hayuman’s Tomb
that’s not how it’s spelt but I really can’t be arsed to spell check the name
of someone who has been dead for 500 years, I didn’t even know him. Very nice
tomb though, the Obama’s went last time they were in Delhi
Good solid
art though, would have been nice if they had just one Damian Hurst, I mean we
did run their country for them, AM I RIGHT?|!|!
JAISALMER
Got there
after a 5 hour bus journey, where the man behind me insisted on leaning on my
seat and using the atheist-fro I have now grown as a pillow which was nice. I
did want to give something back to the Indian people and if my locks of curls
can provide some comfort that is lovely int it.
In Jaisalmer
the business for everyone is camel safaris. Now I did not want to do a camel
safari camels to me are like if a horse was design by some form of democratic thinktank.
But everyone I had met who’d been to Jaisalmer had said it was fun, the german
girls I met particularly liked it. (They
also said they liked my accent. But followed that up with ‘it’s quite
funny’) It was cheap and you got to sleep under the stars so that won me over.
That evening
I ate in the fort and had a look around the fort, then –yes- I slept inside the
fort. The next morning I left for 1 night sleeping on sand dunes and two days
of giving my inner thighs a severe beating. Stars are bright in the Thar desert particularly at 3 o’clock in the morning when
I awoke to a silent firework display hanging in the sky. That kept me up for an
hour, as I then selected Nils Frahm for the soundtrack as a treat.
The next day
frankly was very poor. On the plus side we got back in time for the train and
the camel guide/herdsman/Shepard/jockey was a really nice chap, very quiet but
knew his way around a camel. He didn’t tell me not to get sand in my camera though.
Or that if I did it will then only be useful for making horrible grinding-gear
sounds.
Got back to
Jaisalmer headed to Jaipur on the train.
JAIPUR
Jaipur is a
brilliant city which seems to get a bad rep, probably for it just being a big
city when everyone who goes to Rajasthan is usually just going to see ruddy
forts and palaces in the other towns.
The owner of
the Hostel I was staying at was a good chap as well, we had a 30 minute
discussion about his broadband provider and the fact they over charged him
without asking him. He said it was ‘bullshit’ and that thinks the Korean guests
did it, I told him broadband providers were sneaky. He continued to tell me
about Koreans and how computer-savvy they are.
Amber
fort
Solid fort,
saw a lot of white people on Elephants which was brilliant. There was a man
with a cobra aswell. He assured me ‘no venom, no venom’ but I don’t trust a man with one tooth and a
rather dishevelled Turban which -to my trained eye- appeared to have venom
stains on.
Monkey
temple
Not enough
monkeys.
Solid palace,
lots of marble. Very decadent, very opulent. Spot on. Well done Mister Maharaja
The best
thing in Jaipur has to be the Jantar
Mantar, which translates into
English as abracadabra. Jantar Bantar is an observatory built
300 years ago by Jai ‘the big dog’ Singh. It has a series of sun dials of epic
proportions as well as instuments for measuring the altitude and azimuth (I
don’t know) of celestial objects. Abracadabra
is the name I would choose for any future rockets or space shuttles. I’m sure
NASA will read this.
In fact NASA
if you are reading I just want to say well done you are doing a sterling job in
very difficult circumstances. I count space as one of the most difficult
circumstances.
I’m gonna do
the rest tomorrow; I want to go get an Ice cream.
LOVE YOU BYE.
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