Wednesday, April 1, 2009

And this is my camel Papu

A few notes before getting into my adventure. Im starting to think as a narrative...i find myself think, he said, or describing my emotions and what im thinking as if im reading it, its awkward and i think it means ive been reading too much, i blame dawn and the book list she gave me.
Jaipur was sweet, i ended up seeing the jewel guy again and he wanted to meet me for lunch, but i bailed and hafiz was a little pissed, but whatever. The train ride to jaisalmer was nice, other then the fact that i payed 690Rs for my ticket and then when i got on the train, i was told it was for the night before, so the guy i bought my ticket frm at the counter messed up bad and i was pissed. So the conductor had me buy a new ticket, which was tech 2 tickets, and pay the "no ticket fee" so i ended up paying 1025Rs PLUS the 690, not impressed.
Jaisalmer has been sweet, the city is really nice and i havent been asked for a rikshaw yet! its wonderful! I just got back from a 2night 3day camel safari into the desert which was really cool, but not as good as the fraiser island trip haha
there was me and the sarfari guide, and that was it, there were suppose to be 2 others (from vancouver too) but they never showed up. ill get to that soon. The sarfari was cool, papu (my camel) was really awesome, and Rupe the other camel had a sagging lip because he got in a camel fight and tore the part that connects the lip to the gum so his lip was always open. We stopped at some villages on our way to the big sand dune and in the villages the kids were nuts! they were all asking me for pens and rupees and chocolate, and when i said i didnt have anything they started to pat me down to look! a little invasive and creepy haha.
so that night we slpet in the open air in the middle of the desert (although not alot of sand dunes, just barren waste land sorta desert) from the dune you could see the boarder lights of pakistan which was cool. the stars were nice, but you could see them better in australia because of all the dust and pollution over the country.
during the days i saw tons of jets flying over head, and was a lil skeptical until i FINALLY met some other and concluded that they were training which made sense (india and pakistan both had military bases other there, and the states does all there testing over the desert as well, so it makes sense) also there were 100s of wind terbines other there, like a massive wind farm, but apparently it doesnt make that much energy.
the sleeps were bad, the sand doenst do good things to the back, nor does 5 hours on a camel each day. Ill probally put more pictures up tomorrow, internet is pretty cheap here, but i want dinner!
headed to Udipur tomorrow night, yay adventure!

1 comment:

  1. Awe poor little Rupe Camel! I want a camel!

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