27/03/2010
Today we tried organizing our trip off Mount Abu, there really was not a lot to do here and wasn’t what I was expecting, it’s just a bit too tacky for a honeymoon destination, not that I was here for that. It was funny seeing all the ice-cream shops with gun sellers next to them, perhaps the newlyweds that are married due to them being arranged, not liking the other half, buying them an ice cream and shooting them in the face with a gun and saying it was a “kitchen accident”… this is not so untrue as I’ve heard stories similar to this.
The trains were booked up and our option to get to Jaisalmer via
We were going to do a trek for the afternoon but when we met with our guide who was recommended in the book of lies (Lonely Planet) we decided against it.
We then walked to Delwara temple 3 km away from town, to be honest it was amazing, several temples sculpted from marble with so much detail it was almost a good thing that our cameras were taken away on entry. Sometimes when seeing a place through the lens of a camera it can ruin the experience, although it would have been nice to show who ever reads this the amount of detail that went into making this 600 year old temple. Apparently the sculptors were paid on the amount of dust made from their carvings that is why their work on this temple is so intricate.
We walked back to the guesthouse before heading off to sunset point where all the honeymooners go to take in the romance of the sunset at 1200m. Ill tell you now; there was nothing romantic about it at all… hundreds of tourists honeymooning or not crowding amongst each other to get a glimpse of the no-so-spectacular sunset whilst getting hassled by photographers and popcorn/fairy floss selling children. I did manage to get a few cool pictures of the monkeys that mugged people of their various foods.
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