Friday, 1 May 2009

Sam and the temple of doom

We arrived in Jaisalmer about 12pm, the hottest time. After everyone got off the sleeper train and finished throwing up etc, we all bundled into jeeps. 7 people, 2 backpacks and 6 rucksacks in the back of each jeep :S
It was so much like Indianna Jones as we sped up into the fort at the top of Jaisalmer. We had to rev VERY much to get up the slight incline, almost didn't make it a few times. Very amusing. But in 45 degree desert sun, laughing is the equivalent of a triathalon so we were far too tired to do anything. Jaisalmer is gorgeous. Its actually like the city of gold or el dorado or something. Fantastic buildings and tiny cow-littered streets with a temple round every corner. We all walked down to the market in the evening for a meal, which was a lot of effort but pretty awesome. Since Sophie and Becca had no AC in their DEATH PRSION OF A ROOM, they slept in ours and I went on the floor, which was nice and cool :)

In the morning, Becca and Shags weren't feeling great so me and Soph popped down to the market for some supplies. Water and toiletries and stuff. It was so hot we had to get a tuktuk back to the fort :)

On the way back we picked up some funky new threads for the desert, had to haggle quite a while to get ripped off :S

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