Khuri

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We are back in India after our little vacation to the US. A post about our reactions on coming back will be posted soon. But before writing about that we wanted to get back to posting photos from our trip to Rajasthan Hannah and I took back in February.

Our last post from the trip left off with photos from Jaisalmer. From Jaisalmer, we took a jeep to Khuri, a small village in the desert about 2 hours outside Jaisalmer. It was extremely beautiful and quiet. We had our jeep drop us at Mama's Guesthouse; "Mama" turned out to be a real pushy, big, loud, tobacco-chewing man who turned us off immediately. We decided to stay despite our obnoxious host and left our bags in a room/hut. We went for a walk and later ran into a tourist who was staying at another guesthouse which she highly recommended. We looked at the facility and knew we had to back out of our current lodging situation. Hannah and I walked directly back to our room/hut and grabbed our bags without any confrontation with "Mama".

Our new guesthouse host was probably the most warm and friendly guy we've met in India. He was very soft spoken and kind. This was quite opposite from our experience at the earlier guesthouse. We had lunch with our host and his family and later in the day Hannah and I went on a camel safari which took us to the desert sand dunes only about a mile from the village. We opted for the sunset safari which was only a few hours and it was plenty. About a half an hour into the ride I was ready for a break from the camel, these animals aren't the most comfortable to ride. I must say the entire experience and the unbelievable skies made the discomfort of the camel well worth it. The landscape was so vast and the sunset was incredible.

Even though we took a jeep to the village we took a local bus back to Jaisalmer. This bus ride will go down as one of our many interesting travel stories in India. Hannah got a seat up front and was immediately handed a stranger's baby to sit on her lap, while i stood, smashed in the back for the entire 2 hour trip. The bus left no local commuter behind, they even piled on top of the roof. Experiences of a lifetime… definitely.