Jaisalmer

Surprisingly we both managed to get a good nights sleep even with the loud music. The interrupted sleep and early wake up probably had something to do with it. We walked back up to the fort and had breakfast at the 8th July restaurant where they had vegemite on toast on the menu. We shared a hot lemon, honey and ginger drink with our breakfast overlooking the square. There was a local lady who had a small child in a sling and a young girl with her face painted posing for photos for money. It was interesting to watch as the tour groups came in to see her get up and pose then try to extract the money from the tourists.

After breakfast we visited the Palace Museum for 300 rupees plus 100 for the camera. We only had a 500 rupee note and they didn't have change to give us, so the ticket man wrote 100 in a circle on the back of the camera ticket and told us to come back when we had finished our tour. An audio tour was included in the entry price and we enjoyed our walk through the palace. Seeing the coronation throne and spectacular views over Jaisalmer.

Once we finished our tour we stopped off at a German bakery where David had a piece of chocolate and banana cake and Catriona had a masala chai. It was nice to relax and watch the passing parade of people up into the fort. We then headed back to the hotel where we managed to "chat" with Chris and Sheldon over Skype, we could not manage to get any sound so we ended up just writing to each other. We then headed off to lunch at the 7 spices restaurant across the road from our hotel, the meal was a thali and it was lovely and very cheap.

We went for a walk along the busy streets of Jaisalmer to try to get a picture of the whole fort and looking for an ATM. David climbed a wall to take some good pictures. Because of the heat we decided to head back to the room for an afternoon siesta. We met everyone for dinner at 7pm and went out to Trio restaurant. Because we had such a large lunch we only had soup for dinner. Then off to bed ready for our 5am wake up.