Lookings for free

Arrived this afternoon to Jaisalmer, Rajasthan after a somewhat hairy last 40kms through the Thar Desert, where we were pretty sure our driver was deciding it was nap time. Cue lots of coughing, loud talking and questions directed at him .

We are staying inside the fort in a pretty lush room in the Desert View Haveli, unfortunately the view does not cover the waft of ever present cow shit coming from the streets but you take the good with the bad (hides Colin's indiscretions at least).

We have covered plenty of distance since starting our tour in Delhi, with stops in Mandawa and Bikaner. We are in Jisalmer at least for a couple of days so will be nice not to be in the car tomorrow. Slowly unwinding and settling into life on the road and it already feels like we have been away for ages. It was amusing that after one day in Delhi our perspective had changed so much as to what was nice/clean and safe. We didn't find it as scary to begin with as we thought it would be but it was definitely a sensory overload and very chaotic; the chorus of tooting horns, children with spinning heads doing cartwheels(not quite exorcist - but close) and being the centre/focus of everyone's attention wherever you go.

GGTTFN xxxxx