I didn’t take a lot of photos today, it was more a travelling day as I had quite a long way to go between Jaisalmer and Udaipur. The quickest way would have been to backtrack some distance but I didn’t want to do that, so I had to go the longer way round.
Before I get to that though there is one oddity to mention. At least it’s a bit odd to me - hotel check in and out times.
Normally I’ve experienced check in to be 2pm and check out to be 12 noon, or there abouts. The hotel in Jaisalmer had a check in time of 10am and a check out the same, 10am. This didn’t affect me as I wanted to set off early, but I did notice when I’ve been looking in the internet that it happens quite often in the last few places I’ve gone to.
The only problem I had this morning was that at 6.30am, for some reason, a group of tourists turned up at the hotel and made a lot of noise sorting things out. It seemed that they were all just waiting around inside the hotel. Unfortunately they decided to head for the restaurant, just as I did for my breakfast. I could foresee a very long wait (there was about twenty of them) so I gave up and got in my car, hitting the road at 7am.
It was still only just getting light but I drove out of the town and caught a couple of shots of the sunrise –
Before I get to that though there is one oddity to mention. At least it’s a bit odd to me - hotel check in and out times.
Normally I’ve experienced check in to be 2pm and check out to be 12 noon, or there abouts. The hotel in Jaisalmer had a check in time of 10am and a check out the same, 10am. This didn’t affect me as I wanted to set off early, but I did notice when I’ve been looking in the internet that it happens quite often in the last few places I’ve gone to.
The only problem I had this morning was that at 6.30am, for some reason, a group of tourists turned up at the hotel and made a lot of noise sorting things out. It seemed that they were all just waiting around inside the hotel. Unfortunately they decided to head for the restaurant, just as I did for my breakfast. I could foresee a very long wait (there was about twenty of them) so I gave up and got in my car, hitting the road at 7am.
It was still only just getting light but I drove out of the town and caught a couple of shots of the sunrise –
I initially stopped off for a cup of chai at one of the truckstops but wasn’t actually hungry enough for something to eat. But I had a plan.
I knew today would be a long and winding road so I thought I’d miss out on an organised lunch as such and just grab some street food type stuff as I went through the villages.
There is a wealth of food available but as always I seem to be attracted by the unhealthy deep fried stuff.
First off was a handful (actually one and then went back and got another) of pakora. The only thing I could taste in them was chilli, boy, they were hot –
This was the cart I bought them from and the ‘head chef’ –
A little later I decided to stop and have some crisps (chips, to some nationalities). These were really good but I admit I don’t really know what the white lumps were on the cart, maybe sugar –
A while later I bought a couple of other things just to keep me going.
The first ones are a batter surrounding a potato/veg curry with a large chilli inside, probably the chilli was actually stuffed with the potato but I’m not sure.
The other more round item is like a dough stuffed with lentil curry and deep fried.
Whatever they were, they were filling –
Anyway, to finish off just a couple of shots of how the roads have deteriorated and how the scenery has changed over the miles –
I’m in two minds tomorrow whether to have a mooch around locally and stay in the same place, or continue on. First I’ll have a meal and think about it.