Jaisalmer is also known as the golden city because of the golden dunes surrounding the city and the sand colored buildings. We left Jaipur late in the 2nd and spent a long time in the bus on our way to the train station. During that time we all ended up sharing the silly hand clapping games and nonsensical songs that we sang as little kids. Those of us who had attended summer camps knew many of the same ones. The next day upon arriving in Jaisalmer we had a little bit of time in a hotel to freshen up before we headed in to the desert for a night. Our base camp was a low end commercial resort "village." From there we went out on a two hour camel ride into the dunes where we stayed for sunset. Out on the dunes we all got a chance to let energy out and spent a lot of time running and rolling around making sure we got sand in every pocket and piece of clothing possible. We also took a lot of group photos. Unfortunately I didn't dare bring my new camera out into the desert because we had been warned about the affects of wind and sand on them. All the pictures are on another camera that's going to be shared. Rode back to the base camp for some dinner and traditional dancing before we drove back out into the desert to sleep in tents around a campfire and look at the stars. It was another one of those absolutely amazing nights that I've had here when I can't believe where I am and what I'm doing.
The next morning we were woken by a grizzly voiced man telling us to get up and see the sunrise. So we all crawled out of our tents into a biting cold morning and huffed and puffed out way up the dunes. We didn't last long. The desert in the morning has a cold like no other. It teases you because you know that in just a few hours the sun will be burning down and glaring off the sand into your eyes. After breakfast back at the base camp we took another camel ride the brought us a little ways down the road where our jeeps met us to bring us back into town. The rest of the day was spent sightseeing in the local fort and in the evening we went to see the sunset out in boats on a small lake. Unfortunately, because I'm just that lucky, my camera died right before sunset but I did take some really nice pictures on Hannah's camera....
Speaking of pictures, if you want to see more I've put about 200 pictures on Facebook from the tour. It's a lot. The pictures I put here a ones I really like where as the pictures on Facebook are more of friends on other people, silly moments and such. The Facebook pictures also don't have descriptions or anything. If you go to my North Tour album on Facebook the pictures for Jaisalmer are numbers 61 to 100.
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