Day 6 - 12 hrs on a Bus to Udaipur

It started in the dark and cold in a very quiet Jaisalmer with an 0600 Tuc-Tuc ride to the bus stop. It was indeed a 12-hour, bouncy 300km bus ride, punctuated by the driver moving around speed bumps, pot holes, dogs, cows, camels, motorcycles, trucks and everything else; earplugs essential as the horn featured continuously. It was at least air conditioned, only half full from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur, but it filled there. Fascinating to observe the roadside activity as we passed through the towns en route; sights I simply wasn’t fast enough to photograph. But I did see;

- A cow eating from a bin in Jodhpur bus station.

- A puppy sleeping on the concrete, with buses moving around him. I moved him on, of course.

- Main 2-lane A-road; a motorbike with a man at the front, wife behind him and 2 kids squeezed between, no helmets… I saw this example more than once along the way.

- They drive on the left, it was a 2-lane road with a hard shoulder. Truck passes us on our left, coming towards us down the hard shoulder. Not seen that since I was in Kenya.

- A lot of monkeys as we pulled up into the Aravalli mountains. The driver’s mate tossed a load of bananas onto the verge as we approached, keen to get them off of the road! 🐒

Quarrying is clearly big here; marble, granite and much else. Farmers fields were fenced, but the posts were stone; I haven’t seen many big trees here, so they’ve had to adapt.

My day ends in darkness, as it had begun, but now on a high rooftop terrace for dinner & wine, overlooking Pichola Lake. A great improvement on the bus ride….Read more