Jaisalmeeer

Sat 10th - Jailsalmer

Arrived in Jailsalmere at about 5.30am, had a car there to pick us up and take us to hotel (rs150 per night). We sat on the rooftop and watched the sun rise drinking cup after cup of milky sweet chai. It was nice and relaxing apart from the hotel boys trying their luck with anna and hasseling us into booking their Camel Safari tour, eventually we gave in, tierd and weary and paid up for a tour they promised to be tourist free and 'life changing'. We pulled ourselved together and got out of the hotel, venturing off on a walk around Jaisalmers main attraction, the Fort. 

It is a wonderful maze of little streets full of houses, shops and restaruants. Walked to the end of an alley and got asked into a house by a boy who turned out to be 17 but looked more like 12. He introduced us to his mother and showed us around his house and asked us to take pictures, which we did as it was lovely but of course he wanted rs 10, which we gave him for the pleasure.

 Wandered around for most of the morning and then investigated the streets surounding the fort. The architecture here is amazing, very intricate and many of the streets are paved with stone. I got snotted on by a cow which wasn't very pleasant but at least I mamaged to jump out of its way when it tried to head butt me. There are many fresh paintings of Ganesh on all the houses in preparation for devali which is really soon! We decided to have a lazy late afternoon on the roof top of our hotel and wait until the sun went down abit before we ventured out again to watch the sunset from the Fort.