Jaisalmer sunset at our hotel, Mystic Jaisalmer,  and supper at the hotel rooftop restaurant

Another rooftop supper and sunset…….great food!

What a treat – we arrived in Jaisalmer ahead of schedule!   This ‘golden city’, with a population of approximately 70,000, is our favorite yet.  It is known as the golden city because of the many havelis, ie.mansions, made out of golden sandstone and absolutely amazing architecture.  We arrived mid day and spent the afternoon wandering around, visiting the man made lake and returning to our hotel for cocktails, i.e. Beer, and supper.

On day two we woke up to a great breakfast, toured around the market and made our way to Fort Jain Temple which of course was exquisite!   Hopefully the pictures below will show its beauty; I added one each of Dawn and I just in case.

Fort Jain Temple, Jaisalmer

Next stop, the Thar Dessert, where we slept in tents and had a camel ride – this of course has been a highlight!   It’s actually a little scary because once you get on the camel and they stand up you realize how high up you are with nothing really to hold on to……..well Jim’ s shoulders and praying he doesn’t fall off.  We were taken out to another part of the dessert, dismounted for the sunset, and then back on for the journey back to the tent.  Never thought I would actually do this and so glad I did…….now that it’s over!   It was a quiet night at our tent as we were the only guests so we sat around a fire, enjoyed live traditional Indian music and danced, yes us too!  Then a great supper and crashed in our tent underneath the stars……..life is good!

Camel ride was awesome………even though I was scared to death!

Sunset in the Thar desert

Ready to leave and move to Udaipur which we hear is one of the neatest places in Rajastan……….going by car and driver!