Jaisalmer

Greetings from Jaisalmer, the Golden City. In the middle of the city in this desert in the north-west of India, close to Pakistan border, a huge old fort rises. It looks like a giant sand-castle.

Last night was a perfect escape from our hectic traveling and noisy cities. We slept under a wonderfully star-filled sky in the sand dunes, after riding camels through the hot desert. And we had such great company. Three young german guys and our guides made the experience even more fun. We were jumping in the dunes when it was pitch dark, running races, eating good camping food. And just lying on the sand and watching a beautiful sunset. Ahh. And the camels were nice, mine was called Rocket, and he could go quite fast, almost faster than our guide’s camel!
Oh, all those nice people we’ve met during these two weeks! I got an insight to the educational system here by talking to a nice family from Calcutta on a train. And had a driver and a car with a nice finnish couple for a day in delhi –for free… : ) In the train to Jaisalmer (20h) we shared the bed-area with a really friendly couple from England. And a cute gay-guy from Belgium, who looked like 30 but was almost 50 (said thanks to all the moisturizes and herbal creams)...and many other... tomorrow off to Jodhpur.