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First of all today, we had a very long drive (350kn) from our Desert Camp to Bikaner, another desert town in the North of Rajasthan. Bikaner itself is an odd place, trying to compete with the rest of the country, and not quite succeeding…..it does have one thing though, but I will come to that….

After visiting the golden city, we headed out about 40km into the desert for what was described as “cultural activities”… Our accomodation was tented (complete with leaky toilet cistern). First activity was to get out into the sand dunes of the Thar Desert….and of course, there was only one way to do this… Our camel…

Well, it has been a couple of days out in the desert without wifi, so no blog postings. We are now back in civilisation, so I will post two or three tonight to catch up! Jaisalmer is one of my favourite places in India that we have visited so far, with a living breathing city…

Another transitional day, as we headed out on the 300km drive to Jaisalmer, the Golden City – so called because it is constructed from golden sandstone. The city is deep into the Thar desert, only about fifty miles from the border with Pakistan. As we got closer, the landscape changed noticeably….drier, and sandy. The animals…

Jodhpur is known as the Blue City, because of the colour of its buildings. After meeting our guide (Sunni), we headed for the Jaswant Thada, made from white marble. Whilst the Taj Mahal is a Muslim monument, so contains graves, this is a Hindu monument – Hindus are cremated, rather than buried, so Jaswant Thada…

I had to do a quick ‘bonus’ blog today, but if you aren’t into food, then you can look away now…. One of the vloggers we looked at a lot while preparing for India was Sherry, and her GottaDoIndia Youtube channel… …so, when Sushil, our driver, asked if we wanted to eat out in Jodhpur…