Jaisalmer

On the way to Jaisalmer Sunny turned off the main road (well, the dusty, bumpy road wide enough for a car and perhaps a motorbike to pass each other that was filled with huge trucks) he drove for a couple of minutes into a dusty and seemly deserted town and stopped at the bottom of a short set of stairs.
We got out and climbed the stairs to see what he’d brought us to see. It was a lake. About 100meters across and 50meters wide.? It didn’t seem to be much – though it was quite beautiful. It was a couple of seconds before we released that ground beyond the lake seemed to be moving – it was thousands upon thousands of migrating geese. It was at that point Sunny shouted to us and pointed in the direction of the town. In the distance we could see dark shapes forming in the sky, as the shapes moved and grew closer we began to make out the thousands of geese that were flying over the town towards us and the lake. It was very much like something from Planet Earth and it would have been nice to have David Attenborough to do some narration for us – we did our best to do it ourselves but our lack of knowledge surrounding migrating geese turned out to be a bit of a stumbling block.



The last picture is of a boy flying his kite by the lake, kite flying is a very popular hobby in India! We jumped back in to the car and headed further in to the desert, where we would be sleeping for the night. We arrived had a masala chai and then jumped on some camels to go for a sunset ride over the dunes.



After the trek we went to watch a music and dancing show at a near by venue. Afterwards we had a few beers around a fire.

The next day we headed to the city of Jaisalmer we we stayed a night. We explored the living fort of Jaisalmer where we found children playing games of cricket, cows on the hunt for some cardboard to eat (the average diet for Indian cows), and people going about their daily life all along the tiny streets.