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Monday, October 30, 2006

Chilling

Good evening everyone, its 9.30 pm on Monday the 30th of October. we're chilling in the Himalayas, its been a few days since our last entry, but we have managed to do alot of stuff.
Last you heard we where just about to do the camel safari. well we did our day and half, with much groans from our thighs.
The first stage was 30km in a jeep, which was very fast and windy!! But very welcome as Rajistan has a permanant heat wave, leaving bodys overheated and sweaty (mostly jamie's sweat!) im too pretty to sweat, hehehe!
The camels themselves were the most strangely cute animals i've ever seen, big and ugly but with a sweetness in the eyes. The first day started at three o'clock in the afternoon, missing the main heat of the day, with a 5 hour journey to our campsite. It started out in an area of the desert that wasn't sand duney at all, as you see in the photos, but there was loads of old huts where familys live, and pretty much all of the children all came out along the way shouting
'da da!" while waving, i think it meant "hello!", it was sooooo cute.
Really nice chilled ride, with a stop to take photos of the sunset.
When we got to the campsite we had a meal made for us which we shared with the two Italian girls we were with on the safari. Christina and Sabrina. Hello girls if your reading this!
We all fell asleep staring up at the stars. i've never seen anything like it. The sky was full! And for the first time in my life i saw not one but 3 shooting stars!
Unfortunatly at 5 oclock in the morning I woke up in a sudden thrust of the bowls, woke jamie up and we both set off for the nearest sand dune. Now this is love, as i was in such pain jamie galantly came to my rescue and dug my sand hole for me xxxxxx which i then politly asked if he could turn away! at that point both ends went to work! (if you know what i mean!)
Next morning i felt ROTTEN! No idea why, it just came in a wave and by the end of the day i was fine, but during i could not handle riding the camal any more. We had a cart that the camal men rode so I joined them on that.
Ended the day in a sudden hurried visit to (as the sign put it) THE WORLD FAMOUS RAT TEMPLE. Not what you think, their not climbing the walls, but there are a lot of rats. Also the story is if you spot the only white rat out of thousands of rats it is very lucky........ im not very lucky!
Quick shower at the Vino guest house then jump staight in the jeep, lift to the bus station, followed by some 15 hour sleeper bus journey.

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