Firstly, apologies to those keen followers of the blog for the lack of blog posts over the past few days, we've been rather busy drinking chai and discussing what number we are on the Bristol stool scale (http://www.continence.org.au/pages/bristol-stool-chart.html)...
More to the point, following the majesty of the Taj, a particularly freezing night train to Jodhpur left certain cheapskates amongst us cursing our choice of the thin £1 blanket over the thicker £2 number. Mare. Freezing train aside, Jodhpur is actually a rather delightful little city. Firstly, it has a pretty impressive fort even by Indian standards. An added bonus of the fort is that there is a ziplining course which enabled Fi to pretend to be cultural whilst getting her inner Tarzan on. Secondly, Jodhpur is all blue which creates for a marvellous ambience and an absolutely stella sunset. Thirdly, the girls found a giant emporium which facilitated many new purchases and a small but significant boost to the Indian economy. Lastly, and perhaps most significantly, the people were absolutely wonderful. As Alice, HKC and PB went out for a spot of early morning exercise, they were joined by three charming young Indian men who later invited the group to lunch and threw out the potential invite to the big ol' Indian wedding a couple of years down the line. #reunion2k16. There was also a lovely chap who drove PB round town for 2 hours desperately searching for walkie talkies before discovering that they are in fact banned in Jodhpur. The bloke had played cricket against Brian Lara though so it wasn't a complete waste of time...
Next up was jaisalmer, aka the golden city, bordering Pakistan and with more camels than you could shake a stick at. Again, an impressively large fort, again ridiculously friendly people, again more shopping but Jaisalmer had the much anticipated offering of a camel safari into the desert. 2 hours, 10 sore groins and 87 photos later, we'd made it to camp for the night. The stars were beautiful and provided the perfect backdrop for excitable discussions about what we were going to do when we finally got our hands on the rickshaws the following day. To find out the results of said discussions and see photos of two quite frankly 'pimping' rickshaws please read the blog to follow shortly.
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