Day 7 on the road to the Golden City, gateway to the desert and seen so much already. Every town has its temples, fort and bazaars and we seem to visit them all, albeit briefly. we are travelling in an 10-seater bus so there is more than enough room for us to spread out-a luxury- with a driver (Mr Singh) and pick up guides as we go along to take us to the interesting bits! Yesterday we visited Karni Mata (the rat temple) in Bikener - it was the beginning of Diwali so it was packed with devotees all wanting to touch the rats of course!! So many photos to take and so many wanting to take photos with us which is a bit bizarre. We also visited our first Jain temple, where the priests and nuns are vegan and won't eat anything that grows under grown either so a fairly restricted diet then!!!! They also don't kill anything, so everywhere they walk is swept before they pass, they own nothing and move between temples, walking barefoot. Quite a hard life I suspect....
Doug saw his first demoiselle crane and is very excited about getting up at 3am in a few days time to go and see them coming to feed at a lake near where we are staying!
Food is great, the others tuck into curry for every meal although I have managed to find porridge for a change at breakfast - India is a great place to be a vegetarian though.
wall decoration on haveli (house)
grain sack and underneath is a tractor!
first camels.....
our hotel in Mamdawa
yep it was a very nice hotel...
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