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Jaisalmer The city rises out of the desert like a huge sandcastle and is one of Indias only living forts |
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The sandcastle close up
Tommy's favourite beer - called Thunderbolt must be very inconsistently brewed as it states that it's between 8 and 15%!!! |
We saw lots of wild camels in the desert on our way between Jodphur and Jaisalmer
Us at one of the Havellis with Jaisalmer in the background |
The sandcastle from the distance
Paintings beside the doors to houses |
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The Camel Safari This was soooooo much fun - despite my (Kirsty's) complete fear of any animal bigger than me, I managed to ride the camel quite comfortably and only got off and walked to let Tommy and our guide go for a bit of a canter for a while. After treking through scrubby desert near to the border with Pakistan we reached some deserted sand dunes in time for sun set and as you can see from the pictures these were brilliant fun! We took beer with us which was only slightly (!!) warm by the time we drank it - the desert temperature was 49 degrees C!!! |
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Tommy photographing himself on his camel
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Our camels were both boys and kept eyeing up wild girl camels we passed along the way!
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Ranthambhore Tiger Sanctuary We suffered a real stroke of bad luck with the tiger sanctury as we originally wanted to go at the start of our trip - the hotel then told us the park was closed for the annual tiger census so we changed out itinerary to go at the end of the trip. Unfortunately for us it rained and washed the tiger prints away and the census had to be extended - which meant the park was closed the whole 24 days we were in India! The hotel however made up for it - it was complete bliss!! |
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Travelling first class on a train for the first time in our lives!!!
View of the 25 tents from the observation tower - they all had walls around them and were totally private - it was just fab!
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The four poster bed in our tent!
The peacock is the national bird of India and we saw lots of painted and live (L and R pics) ones
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The huge bathroom - the tent in total was bigger than our tiny HK flat - hard to believe but true!
This was as close as we came to seeing tigers....
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Delhi We spent the last couple of days in Delhi but only did a small amount of sightseeing as we wanted some final pampering and relaxing time before heading back to work and all the other hectic things we had planned back in HK |
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