Golden Ticket

      I went to the Golden City! According to my Buppa, if I make it to the City of Lakes, I will see all of Rajasthan's best cities. I would say that Jaisalmer, the Golden City, was right in the middle of nowhere, except for the fact that it is very near to Pakistan.

    After about 2 weeks solid of class before Holi, it felt like a well-deserved break. Spent Friday afternoon seeing a Bollywood movie with one Hindi teacher and 6 classmates, then hopped on a midnight train and woke up in Jaisalmer. Easy.

We were met at the train station by Delboy, owner of Trotters Camel Safari, a pun that was not explained to me until about 7 PM by a British couple with us on the dunes. Please see the following if you are as American as I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Boy

Long story short - sleeping over night in the desert, watching the sun set and rise over the dunes, and seeing the moon bright orange as it rose was pretty phenomenal.