Hospitals, hire cars and holy places.

"My hopes and dreams lie beneith your feet. Friends, I invite you to remove your shoes and walk them with me." Dhari carpet weaver of Jodhpur

So far the following things can be ticked off my travel to-do list:

Visit to non-english speaking Indian hospital (its ok I'm not dead) TICK
Experience a flash onset sand storm TICK
Ride on a local bus with locals staring at me like a sideshow for over 6 hours TICK
Dine wth Royalty TICK
Be rescued from a mob of teenage boys by a gentlemanly Spaniard TICK
Buy a carpet TICK
Sleep in the desert TICK
Meditate in a Maharaja's water garden. TICK
Drink freshly prepared opium water in remote Tribal village. TICK
Have convincing fortune telling experience from unknown holy man who refused payment. TICK
Watch two Indian boys have a dance-off in a nightclub to a Michael Jackson medly. TICK
Now that only leaves: Obtain spititual enlightement, Throw object into the ganges, prank call a telemarketing centre and fall in love. Not too bad really...

The last few days have been simply amazing! Lisa had been having a slight medical problem and when we ran into a delighfully handsome (No he wasn't gay Joseba you are just jealous) Frenchman who was a pharmacist on a rooftop in Jodhpur he told us to go check it out in hospital. So we did and boy I have to say, India has medical care sorted. We westerners could certainly learn a thing or two about India's coordinated chaos because we were seen by a GP referred to a secialist, saw a radiographer and were out of there with a diagosis and prescribed prescription in a matter of only a few hours and all in all enjoyed the experience. (Except me panicking and fretting like a mother for all those hours)

Then straight from hospital into a auto rickshaw to dinner, cocktails and a swish Indian nightclub to shake our booties into the wee hours. (yes this is where we saw the dance off and yes it was AWSOME!!)

the next saw us leave Jodhpur for Udaipur a journey which I will tell to you tomorrow in more detail. Apologies for no pictures in this post, but I left my camera cable in my hire car yesterday, its being returnedto me tomorrow and I will add some to this post then. Now I'm off to watch the sunset (yes again I know!) This time in a boat on the famous Udiapur lake overlooking the great Monsoon palace before a private culturaldance show and to watch Octopussy over dinner as this is the city in which the famous James Bond movie was filmed.