Bikaner Stories


Mandawa & Bikaner

If Delhi felt a little bit familiar, Rajasthan is anything but! Rajasthan is to the west of India and it is the desert region. After a 6 hour journey where Jay literally wilted in our non-air conditioned car (Editor's Note: A slight overstatement but I'll go with this one) we arrived in the town of Mandawa for a brief overnight stop. Mandawa is in th...


Bikaner & Thar desert

Bikaner etc From Jaiselmer we back-tracked down the army road, then turned North East towards Bikaner, passing through Bap, where Tata trucks were loaded up with salt extracted from the local groundwater. Bikaner features yet another magnificent fort/palace with more of the carving, paintings, tiles and architecture we were now familiar with but nev...