Pushkar: “The animals are arriving already!”
Off in the distance camels stretch into as far as the eye can see. Single humped, double humped, dark furred and light, rough haired, and two toed. Chewing with lower teeth jutting out from the split...
View ArticleJodhpur: “Excuuuuse me, ma’am! You know what is wool?”
At one point, a bit yarn hungry by now, I happened upon a dusty bag of nasty pink acrylic wool. A small boy leapt from the shadows of the shop, "Excuuuuse me, ma'am! You know what is wool?" he...
View ArticleJaisalmer: “Oh… It go ice.”
It is clear to me that the waiter has the power to freeze water at will, and that sometimes, maybe when he has spilled birayani down a customer who would have been a big tipper, or a cow gouged at him...
View ArticleJaisalmer (Thar Desert): “In the morning we go to meet your camel.”
I was first introduced to my camel as Michael Jackson (the camel's name, not mine), but I later found out that his real name was Rallu. A much more camel-sounding name if you ask me.
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