After breakfast we drive to Manvar, an ideal base to explore the Indian desert life, culture, wildlife and natural beauty. On arrival, we check-in at our comfortable desert resort in time for lunch.
This afternoon we enjoy the unique desert atmosphere for which this region is famous. Keep an eye out for the chinkara — a shy gazelle — as they make way across the silent sands. Watch the children trotting off to school, while their mothers prepare their afternoon meal on dung-fire. Our village tour by jeep will allow us to share the fascinating culture of these friendly people and enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of this vast desert.
The evening is enlivened by a campfire, mashaals (traditional songs), and local musicians and dancers. With stunning sunrises, mesmerizing sunsets and dazzling night skies, life in this peaceful wilderness is spectacularly elemental — and extraordinarily silent.
My comments: look closely at a Camel…it has a big hump on its back it is so high off the ground that even Gene Autry would have had to use a spring board. To me it’s says” I am not a horse, don’t ride me” Well we did and this is how it is done: first it lies down then you get on it, one in front of the hump one behind. Then it lungs backward to get its on its front legs then lungs forward to get up on its back legs. This only takes several frightful seconds. Both riders receive a $100.00 chiropractic treatment. Now you take off..feeling quite unstable but you do get kinda use to the gate until you begin to go uphill where again you feel you are going to be on the ground abruptly falling backwards. Up hill is only trumped by the process of going downhill, which is like hanging your body over the edge of a cliff. Dismounting is the opposite of mounting except it that it undoes the former chiropractic treatment. Like I said there is no animal that has made it clearer…don’t ride me! But it was a great experience and the sunset spectacular.
Now the tent inself was surreal, it is a re-enactment of the days when the kings went hunting except’ of course these were permanent . The evening entertainment was stunning and the meal superb! Luxury at it’s finest all the while enjoying the desert life and the local attendants. This was a wondeful day.