In Jaisalmer

Diu Prison from near the fort

Diu Fort

The moat, notice the square cut on some of the stone, they must have cut it up slab by slab and used it to build the place.

Portal view

Fort chapel

The Indian invaders are coming.

The entrance

Fishing boats, prisons, and South Africans things you see everywhere in the world, this beach was also the local fishing village toilet, at least 3 people come down for a poo while we where there.

An old church now museum/backpackers.
I hadn't loaded any of these photos to the laptop when I did the last post.

22/1/12

   It was tuff but managed to leave to day heading north through some back roads between Una and Gondal, although I did take one wrong turn so ended up taking a bit longer than I hoped. It did involve riding through a wild live sanctuary with lots of deer and peacocks, that I saw. Ended up staying in a town called Morbi (on my map it is Morvi). It is a very dusty town as it is the ceramic tile capital of India, the 22km from Wankaner to Morbi is basically a chain of tile factories spitting out a shit load of dust and it covers the whole town. Will be interesting to see how dirty my bike is after one night outside. 

23/1/12

   The bike had a reasonable layer on it in the morning as expected. Headed out early thing of trying for Jiasalmer, it's bloody cold here in the morning though, I had to put the Rugby jersey on top of my long sleeved shirt. Lucky I bought a scarf for the dusty road works near Hampi as it has come in handy up here for dust and also for the cold. Got about 70km from Morbi to see a sign saying 500km to Jiasalmer, so thought that was a no go.

   Found a place about 150km from Jaisalmer but the hotel was too posh so as it was 16:30 decided to carry on knowing I would arrive in the dark. Got to Jaisalmer about 18:30 and froze for a while before the sun set, mainly because of the light on cars here I wanted to make it as far as I could before dark. Stopped and put gear on changed to non tinted visor and prepared for the worst. The Indian drivers seem to think that everyone becomes deaf at night and so they use the high beam to tell people what they are doing, great for seeing at night on a bike....i did know this.

24/1/12

   Found a nice place on wiki travel, Hotel Surja. The fort here is the first still lived in one I've seen in India which makes it quite special. Instead of being a ruin or unkeeped it is looked after because it is home to many. Great view of sunrise and sunset, and the fort from the lake is cool too.

View from the hotel

Yes it is bloody cold, i would say under 10C, yes I know that isn't actually that cold but i have been in the tropics for a long time, and yes i forgot to rotate the photo before photo shopping it.

  Took the bike into the Hero shop as there was a bit of a noise, think I pushed a bit hard doing almost 600km in a 12 hour ride yesterday. It wasn't the tappets like I hope so had to pull the engine out (INR900/$18US labour), so have decided to change a few things well here, new timing set, piston set barrel, gasket, valves done, also new battery, fuel filter, air filter, plug, etc. It has been almost 10,000km so far on this bike so some of those things I was doing anyway. It should take about 4 days for the parts to arrive, so just walking around and relaxing, enjoying free wifi in the hotel finally.

From entrance to fort

From hotel roof

From the lake

The lake near sunset

It's very difficult to look like you don't know someone is taking the photo when you are the one taking the photo, I'll have to work on that one lol.
 Anyway hope all is well in the world outside, of my little bubble.\
  Enjoy your life.