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Last revised: 4 Feb 2004
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Jodhpur [11/3/2003 journal] Babush said to meet at 9 and we were ready, but guide didn’t arrive till 9:30. He told us it didn’t matter since nothing opened till 10! In addition, Prince Charles here, so the fort was closed today. In fact, market opens by 8 – later realized the guide had other reasons for diverting us - kept trying to suggest other stops when we said we wanted more time in market. This was the most blatant example of a persistent problem – guides get a kickback when they take groups to certain shops; usually, the guides are low key about this, especially when we tell them we’re not interested, but this guy persisted, and kept us from what we really did want to do which was to wander in the market perhaps to buy, but mainly to watch. Further complication is that each store usually does interest one of the group, but we just don’t have time to do them all and still see sights. Even after one stop, guide had wanted to stop at painting school for ‘just’ 10 min demonstration, but finally acquiesced when we insisted we needed to get underway. Luckily we did so – we were told it would take 5 hrs on good road in heavy traffic – but only the latter turned out to be true – the road was much worse, and it took much longer.

Jaisalmer - After lunch we returned to Dadomers, and started looking at their displays of textiles.

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