Month: February 2026

Because we only spent one day in Bikaner, Mr Mukesh volunteered to take us to two major sights in Delhi, the Qutub Minar and Humayun’s tomb. The Qutub Minar is … Read more

The trip to Delhi was uneventful apart from the sight of numerous pilgrims walking with orange flags to a temple where a festival celebrating a God was taking place. We … Read more

In the morning, we reached Mandawa, a small and rather nice town which had evidently seen better days because of the large number of havelis, town houses built by prosperous … Read more

The hotel in Bikaner was very colourful, clean and well-managed, and the food was good. The fort was built between 1589 and 1594 on the basis of an earlier fort … Read more

After a surprisingly nice breakfast we drove back to Jaisalmer where we discovered that the agency had forgotten to book us another night at the rather nice hotel we had … Read more

In the morning we went to see a large lake on the edge of Jaisalmer, then to the collection of mausoleums to all the maharajahs of jaisalmer for hundreds of … Read more

This morning we visited the Mehrangarh Fort at Jodhpur. Having seen forts in Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Chittorgarh and Bundi, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it, but it was brilliant. … Read more

Today was uneventful; we drove a long way, booked into a hotel and then visited a spice shop, of which there are many in Jodhpur. We also went for a … Read more

The famous Jain temple at Ranakpur is one of the biggest of its kind in India. It is dedicated to Adinatha, the first of the 24 Tirthankaras (spiritual leaders) who … Read more