Northern India Journey - Day 14 Jaisalmer - 26/12/2010

We went to the hostel which organized the camel tour. The hostel was interesting. There were many Korean people stayed there and also offered many Korean food as well. We then realised that the Indian boss was married to a Korean woman and they started this business afterwards. When we waiting for the tour, we saw the Korean girl we met in the train. Coincidently they also joined the tour. We thought that must be fun.

Inside the jeep

In the tour the driver took us to visit Bada Bagh. That was a beautiful remains of a Indian royal garden. At the top, you could see many windmill far apart. Having heard that the windmill were built by the Indian army to provide electricity. In Bada Bagh, there were some Indian visitors. Some kid asked me to take picture with them. How funny.

Windmill in the desert

Picture with Indian kids

An hour later, we finally saw our camel! But my camel did not have the stirrup, it's a bit scary for my very first camel ride. Also, I'm so skinny that my ass was really painful in the ride. After an hour, we stopped next to a small pond and let the camel drank water.Then we went on an hour to have lunch in the desert. Which is very interesting to see the camel guides helping us to cook our lunch. The lunch were roti, potato and Korean kimchi!

Before the sunset, we were finally in Sam Sand Dunes. We were going to stay a night in the desert in a tank. The dinner was basic but really nice for us. You know, you can't expect you can get a big meal in a desert in such price. But we had extra ordered a chicken! Roasted chicken (without any sauce, though) in desert just like food from heaven, right? The other thing i enjoyed most was the clear starry sky at night. You could see the milky way when you looked up on the sky! For people from Hong Kong like me, would never have any chance to see something like that!! In our tour, there were a old Korean couple who brought the camera and tripod with them. They helped people to take pictures at night with the star. That's an excellence experience that day.

Sunset

Our Tank

Starry night.