Howdy Pilgrim
They were travelling by tractor.... Well the Duke actually didn't say "Howdy Pilgrim" it was actually "Hey Pilgrim, your gonna need a couple of stitches". Although John Wayne wasn't in Rajasthan, the scenery was from a John Ford film. Sweeping expanses of arid country with low trees and punctuated with sand dunes and pilgrims everywhere. We had wanted to visit Jaisalmer for a long time and a weekend that coincided with Dahi Handi and Indian Independence day gave us the 4 day window to allow us to do justice to the City. From Mumbai, you fly to Jodhpur for a four and a half hour drive to Jaisalmer. I wanted to go via the temples at Osian but our driver warned us against it as the it was a secondary road and he said lots of people were walking along the road. I took his advice and so we travelled the main road to Jaisalmer via Pokhran, site of India's first nuclear tests and a hot spot for cancer, although I was...