Northern India Journey - Day 13 Jaisalmer - 25/12/2010

I needed to woke up at the bloody morning in this Christmas day. Not very merry at the beginning. After backed up everything, paid the bill and checked out, I left the hostel to take the train to Jaisalmer. On the main road, there was an auto-rickshaw. I didn't take it as I wanted to save some money on my trip and the station wasn't too far. But I really regretted that. When I walked for a few minute There were about 5-6 dogs ran in front of me and keep barking!! OMG. The dogs weren't very big. But when you walked a lone on the street with heavy luggages in the early dawn and no people could help you, I really scared. Luckily, I saw 2 old men sat along the street. I went to them to seek for help. So, you could imagine they won't understand what I said. But one of them yelled back to the dogs. I think the dogs won't attack the local. Then one man saw me wretchedly frightened (A bit silly when I think back that day), he gave me a stick. He used the stick to hit on the road and spoke some words in Hindi. (I guessed he told me to use the stick to hit anything, so, the dogs won't hurt me.) Anyway, I started to walk with the stick again. The dogs were still chasing me and barking. Even few more join the "gang". When I reached the gate of the old city, they finally stopped chasing. Thanks God...

At the train station, I met the couple and wait for the train together. When the train arrived, we can't see the label of the compartment we were taking. We just got on one of the compartment. Meanwhile, we met 4 Korean girls who were panicking where were their seats and asked us for help. Suddenly the train moved fore and back. We thought the train needed to add more compartment. That move made us a bit nervous. Finally, we settled. In the train, we also met a girl from Hong Kong. After sharing our travel stories, we joined together.

The Indian sat in front of us. They were very curious. I think that was their first time to see so many Chinese in the train.

The train suddenly stop. We took photo outside the door.

First meal in Jaisalmer.

When we arrived Jaisalmer, we settled in the hostel, hung around, booked the Camel Ride to Desert. Eventually, we finished the day. Oh. Merry Christmas!

We had a Tea at night.