(Written April 6)
Today was the third and final day of a three-day, two-night camel safari in the Thar Desert. Each day's itinerary went something like this: wake up around 7 and have some breakfast (chai tea, chapati, some vegetable dish which greatly resembles lunch and dinner), saddle and load gear onto camels, ride for three hours, eat lunch and nap in shade between 11am and 4pm (too hot to move), then camp someplace and eat dinner. Noteable additions to this schedule (at no additional charge) included witnessing the intricit ballet of two growling, biting camels mating in the sand, and being kept awake all night by the misplaced bites of wayward dung beetles.
One of our two guides, 13 year old Aman, had a charming way of answering most questions with, "Why not? Everything possible". My kind of guy!
Now I am back in Jaisalmer. As in every other Indian town and city I've visited, the locals seem only to be motivated by the acquisition of money. Thus, once again, there's no real possibility to have an insightful dialogue on culture. It's maddening how rude these people can be!
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