 | Cowboy Camel Safaris
2007-05-07, Jaisalmer, India. By: mashman | | So Jaisalmer then, scorching hot desert trading post where camels, the "Ships of the Desert" rule the roads. I was struggling badly with the heat but was determined to get out into the desert on one ... |
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 | Jaisalmer to Jaipur
2006-09-21, Jaisalmer, India. By: jandtrish | | Our Rajasthan highlights (you'll notice Mandawa and Bikaner aren't included...) We have learned 2 things on our way - the cow and the horn are king in India. We have even seen a woman kiss and bless a... |
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 | Camel Safari and Battle With the Snake
2006-08-09, Jaisalmer, India. By: gertjonnys | | After a quick stop in Jodhpur and some more temple, fort, and blue city sights, we moved onward to Jaisalmer, a five-hour drive. The landscape is pretty much all flat desert (shrubs, thorn trees, dir... |
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 | beast of the east and a black hole sun
2006-07-21, Jaisalmer, India. By: guelf | | holy moly the taj seems like ages ago.. but it's beauty remains embedded in my retina's like it was just yesterday.. puke... but i must say, in all cheesiness, it is quite an exquisit monument. we arr... |
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 | Hellish Heat, Sandstorms, Camels and Dung-Beetles
2006-04-27, Jaisalmer, India. By: Brony | | We arrived in Jaisalmer – where the Lonely Planet commented that you’d have to be crazy to go this time of year due to the hellish heat- about supper time and it was still in the mid-40’s. The regula... |
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 | Kevin meets his match
2006-05-12, Jaisalmer, India. By: kev_jen | | After the near tragedy discussed in a prior post, we were on to Jaipur to meet up with Steve. Turns out Jaipur is actually a comfortable city. Much different than those we had experienced to this po... |
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 | Sons of the Desert
2006-02-08, Jaisalmer, India. By: archandfi | | Jaiselmer
The road to Jaipur accross the Thar desert is very good, thanks to the Indian army who have regiments of tanks in the area (close to Pakistan border) as well as their nuclear test site. O... |
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 | Jaislmer, Jodhpur & Pushkar
2004-10-30, Jaisalmer, India. By: seta76 | | I know i haven't written in a while...we've been on the go for the past week...and i was a bit under the weather.
Jaislmer was very hot...even in the end of October. The camel safari trip we did... |
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 | He's a ninestone cowboy
2003-02-29, Jaisalmer, India. By: pudseystu | | What a busy few day's we've had.
Travelled up to Jaislemer on a thirteen hour overnight bus. Had the worst nights sleep ever after some fat bloke reclined his seat as far as it would got and cut off ... |
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 | Pukey Soldiers and Sandy Bums
2001-10-04, Jaisalmer, India. By: nsuffield | | Due to get the train that night so we hung around the hotel most of the day. Introduced Andrea to the wild and wonderful world of Rummy. Only realised later that Germans don’t even have standard packs... |
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 | New Colours
2001-10-03, Jaisalmer, India. By: nsuffield | | Spent the day trying to get a package sent by the post (groan!) and then off to the train station to get a ticket … foolish foolish people! We should know by know. Yet a different procedure for this p... |
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| Cushion-tastic!
2001-10-02, Jaisalmer, India. By: nsuffield | | Wondered around the town and came to the realisation that there are only a few different types of shops in India: veg stores, fruit juice places, spice shops, textiles, second hand book stores, leathe... |
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| Hotelier Scrum
2001-10-01, Jaisalmer, India. By: nsuffield | | Our train arrived in Jaisalmer at about 5am. As we dragged our gear out of the station we were greeted by a huge mob of hotelliers and rikshaw drivers held back by the police – it was like some kind o... |
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