Saturday, January 24, 2009

Bikaner - better

Today I feel much better, still queasy, but nothing like yesterday. Also, after a lot of quality time, I have come to terms with the squat toilet. Although give me a western style toilet any day of the week.

After getting up this morning I had breakfast with the family, sitting crosslegged on the floor of their tiny kitchen. And when I say family I mean the dad, mother, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, and some guy whom I don't know what relation he is. There was not a lot of room and my legs are still a little cramped :) I'm waiting now for the bucket of water to heat up so that I can shower. Might go get a shave after this, looking a bit scraggly with a few days beard growth. I got a roadside shave in jaipur (disposable razors) and it was the best shave I've ever had.

After that I will explore bikaner, and then decide whether to do the camel safari from here or whether to go south to jaisalmer which has bigger sand dunes, but also a lot more tourists.
--
Conor

3 comments:

raaga said...

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Colleen said...

even with the toilets, i'm jealous. can't say i'm not.

Utsav said...

I've used them only a couple of times, but they're supposed to be much better (if less comfortable) for quality bowel movements.

I can't believe I just said that.