Trip to Jaisalmer-Part 4

During our dinnertime we were joined with 2 foreigners who were working for the German Embassy and the Italian Embassy. We were talking more about our work and culture of each country. Both of them have come down here for a short stay of 6 months and 8 months. The dinner that was served was special dinner with sweets and special vegetable. The safari organizer has a policy one time food will come from their home. It made us more comfortable by the way they organized.

After dinner we were chatting till 10Pm and then decided to go for sleep. Our beds on the sand dunes were ready. The open sky and the cool breeze were soothing. I immediately fell asleep and by 3Am I woke up because of the cold. Pulled my quilt over me and again I was fast asleep.

We woke up early morning thinking that we will get some good sunrise photos, but nothing was convincing. Before we could finish our photo session we had a call from our guide that we have to leave and the breakfast was ready. The breakfast was some slices of bread with jam, a boiled egg, fruits and a cup of tea. By the time we finished the breakfast the camels were ready and we headed off to a village.

The village consists of one school and around 100 houses. But it looked like there were around only 40 to 50 houses. Our guide also warned about the people, that they may call you into their house and later they will ask you to pay some money. If you don’t pay you will not be let out. We asked our guide to accompany us, but he refused saying that they will not allow him inside the village because he was a Muslim. After 15 to 20 mins rest we were heading to the next spot for our lunch stop, which was 6kms from the village. After around 8 to 10 hrs of camel back we got the confidence of camel ride and started to make the camel to run, it was really amazing.

While we were taking some rest our lunch was prepared and we also got few bottles of chilled water form our organizer. We were taking rest till 3Pm and then headed to the Sam’s sand dunes, which is very famous around that area. That was around 10kms form our place. Once again we started making the camels to run and it ended up as if we were on a racetrack. Because of this we were totally exhausted but we reached the place well in advance. Once again the sunset was not pleasing and the sand dunes were looking like a beaches, full of footprints and crowded. The actual charm of the sand dune is their wave without any footprint.

After some time we started back to the city and reached Jaisalmer around 8Pm. We were very much hungry that we went directly to the restaurant and had our dinner. After dinner we checked into the hotel and all were like a log on the bed sleeping.

More to come…