Everyone meet Papu:
Papu is a 9 year old male camel who lives with the people of the Thar Desert.
These new found friends were gallant enough to carry usraciously across the desert to last nights camp site. (a few mad dashes in between as Tiger and Papu seemed rather competative and Lisa and I turned out to be rather well skilled in camel riding - go figure) Naturally Papu won.... Of course ...
Never to be upstaged, the lady moon rose in her full glory over the dunes, making the event a truelly magical moment.
We had arranged some local musicians to play for us into the night and they arrived in full garb and played in the light of the full moon as we danced to local tunes and they even managed a tune or two that we knew! I wasn't able to capture the lightning show that we witnessed as well. Truelly mother nature put on her best dress for us!
After the food, music, dancing and games we all fell asleep under the watchful eye of moon and stars and awoke to a clear blue morning.
I even managed to watch the sun rise again with a local dog who had been guarding our campsite.
Back aboard Papu I returned to Jaisalmer for a very much appreciated shower (argh the sand it was everywhere!) We set off on a local bus (ee gads!) for Jodhpur in 1 hour.
Papu is a 9 year old male camel who lives with the people of the Thar Desert.Also meet Tiger, escorting Lisa and Michael escorting Jo our handsome Spaniard companion:
These new found friends were gallant enough to carry usraciously across the desert to last nights camp site. (a few mad dashes in between as Tiger and Papu seemed rather competative and Lisa and I turned out to be rather well skilled in camel riding - go figure) Naturally Papu won.... Of course ...We arrived in time to settle our sore behinds into the soft sand, crack a local bevvie, and watch an amazing sunset.
Never to be upstaged, the lady moon rose in her full glory over the dunes, making the event a truelly magical moment.We had arranged some local musicians to play for us into the night and they arrived in full garb and played in the light of the full moon as we danced to local tunes and they even managed a tune or two that we knew! I wasn't able to capture the lightning show that we witnessed as well. Truelly mother nature put on her best dress for us!After the food, music, dancing and games we all fell asleep under the watchful eye of moon and stars and awoke to a clear blue morning.
I even managed to watch the sun rise again with a local dog who had been guarding our campsite.
Back aboard Papu I returned to Jaisalmer for a very much appreciated shower (argh the sand it was everywhere!) We set off on a local bus (ee gads!) for Jodhpur in 1 hour.
We're told when we're growing up that we can be whatever we want, and then we're forced into the mold of what others want us to be. Irony...
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