The desert festival last night was really good, we missed the camel race but the dancers, musicians, flame carriers and generally bendy people we saw made up for it. We also met some gujarati university students, they were around the same age as us (twenty of them in total) so they chatted about life in India and asked a million questions... many based on Cricket or Gordon Brown!?! The 10th was spent as a free day and so Sarah and I hit the shops, Sarah spent e...

Yesterday we had an interesting local bus journey to Jaisalmer. We had to get up for a 5.30 am start which nearly killed me and was very very cold! Once we arrived we packed an overnight bag, popped out to some of the 10,000 shops here, and then headed off in jeeps to the desert. On arrival we were each given a camel and camel boy and headed off into the sunset :) Two and a half hours of camel trekking later and we arrived at a very pretty sand dune in the middl...