Okay, anyone who thinks sleeping on sand is going to be comfortable is wrong! We wake with aches and pains from spending a night in a cold and smelly tent. We are so ready for deluxe right now!!!
After feasting on dry toast and honey for breakfast…we’ve spent several nights dreaming of bacon sandwiches…we get back on our camels.
It’s a shame the trip isn’t slightly longer, as there is plenty to see as the camp is set in the midst of a national park. There is wildlife everywhere, you just need to take the time to stop and look around properly. Desert wildlife moves around when it’s not too hot, and as we set off it’s early enough to see foxes, gazelle, vulture, eagle, bee-eaters and all sorts of other bird life. The dunes themselves are a latticework of tracks left by beetles, mice, birds and other wildlife.
We ride nice and slowly back to our Jeep in the village. We are in serious need of a shower – we smell of mothballs – and have dreamt about bacon, steak and wallowing in a hot bath!! It’s definitely time for another change of plan and pace?
We have been looking at our next few destinations and weighing-up what we have learnt so far. In essence we have underestimated the time and effort it takes to get from place to place in India by car and train, whilst overestimating the amount of time we need in each place to do ‘the sights’. So as we wait for our shower water to heat up, we plan our next move.
However, before we have time to wash the sand out of our hair, the owners of Fifu take up Phil’s kind offer to photograph their new project, Jasmine Haveli. We traipse around the new hotel, which is beautiful, but definitely work in progress, and even find ourselves in some of the pictures. The owners are over the moon with the results and I have a feeling that come April next year when they have completed their new website it will be filled with Phil’s photos, as well as one or two of us, looking dishevelled and not so fresh from the desert.
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