Today we drove the very long (about 330km) journey from Mandawa back to Delhi. It took about six and a half hours, mainly because it was single track roads for much of the way, and there were loads of roadworks. Indian roadworks are rather odd, as there is usually no warning, they just close the…

On the face of it, Mandawa is just a town on the way back to Delhi, so we weren’t really expecting much of the place. It turns out that we had one of the best times of our holiday here, thanks in no great part to Sushil. The journey from Bikaner was about 200km, so…

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…