I am preparing to depart to Udaipur by yet another overnight bus. I have decided that from my initial reservations, now I've got used to it, I love India. I really like Jaisalmer now and will be sad to leave it but excited about the next place. Immediately after posting my last blog I got myself into another of my situations. The man in the internet place was very friendly, and helped me put some music on my MP3 player (haven't lost it yet!). He voluntarily told ...

Hurrah, I have made it out of Punjab and into Rajasthan. I got here by more exciting adventures into the Indian road system. This journey was less breath-taking in the life-threatening department but no less adventurous for all that. We started by getting a sleeper bus to Bikaner. I was overjoyed to find that, in proportion to their respective people's sizes, the beds in Indian sleeper buses are a lot roomier than in the Chinese and Vietnamese ones, so I had a fa...