Jaisalmer

I’ve taken the blog back for today as Bec stayed in for half the day as she was still feeling sick. We had a sleep in till about 10 and then got some breakfast, after that we headed out to the fort, shortly after we got in Bec started feeling sick again so we came back to our room. Bec wanted to stay as she wasn’t sure how she would go outside, so I headed back to the fort to have a quick look around. The inside of the fort looks older and more detailed then outside the walls, the streets are very narrow and not built for walking and motorbikes/rickshaws zooming past but it does happen and somehow it all works. I ended up finding my way to the top of a Bastion which had an amazing view of the city below, on my way back out I got caught chatting with a stall owner who spoke really good English, he took me back to his shop to meet his cousin and show me their wares, I told them I wasn’t really interested but they were happy to keep chatting (a lot of the locals just want to talk to practice their English) probably chatted for about half an hour and then told them I had to head off to get back to our hotel as Sud was picking us up at 2. Quickly walked back to our room and we got ready to head out, met Sud and asked if any of the places he suggested had toilets, he said no and suggested we postpone till tomorrow, he also told Bec that bananas and yoghurt were good for an upset stomach, so he quickly drove us to the market and bought Bec some bananas (which he would not let us pay for) and then took us back to the Hotel. We headed up to have some lunch , I had a curry and Bec had her bananas and curd!! We were both a bit worried - smelt it and then I tasted it and it seemed ok so Bec ate it. We hung around for a little while after lunch to see how Bec was feeling and after an hour we decided to give the fort another go. Walked around the fort for a while and came across a bookshop, we went in looking for a book called “The Holy Cow” which Sud told us to get, as it explains what Gods are associated with what animal and why each animal is sacred, so we haggled that down to almost half price and continued on. Ended up in another textile shop which was a charity trying to raise money for village women to be able to get an education, they had the usual patchwork wall hangings etc. but they had these beautiful intricate Muslim works that looked amazing, we left with 2 of them and as it was getting dark we decided to head home. That leads me to here, sitting writing this on the rooftop with our amazing view of the fort. Bec is feeling a lot better so if she is well tomorrow it will be a busy day catching up on some sight seeing before we leave Jaislamer the following day.