Today has been FANTASTIC! Our best day yet. We began with breakfast on the roof - we didn't like the restaurant, the sun was shining and the view s beautiful, so we asked to go out there. They couldn't have been happier to move out a table for us. I felt as though we were in an advert for Alpen or something. The kids ran up down the roof terrace with this incredible back drop, and the we all sat and watched the boy who helped bring our bags in galloping the horse around the field next to us. He's training him to rear up. It looks like a lot of fun.
We then wondered into town. We went down to the ghats along the lake and Hamish and I did puja, a strange ritual that involves chanting, placing petals into the lake and blessing your family. The kids watched, fascinated. Even Martha.
Freya used the holy water, thought to heal and purify the soul, to wash some cow poo off her foot, and then we walked along the main bizarre. It's still as much a shopper's paradise as it was a decade ago. So much gorgeous stuff, I didn't know where to look.
We found ourselves some treasures and then bought food supplies for our camel trek into the desert.
It was so brilliant. To think, yesterday we arrived here feeling tired, fed up and disappointed. Less than 24 hours later we were returning to our hotel on camels (or in Martha's case, asleep like a medieval princess aboad a sumptuous cart underneath her own decorated canopy) having ridden out to watch the sun set on Rajasthan, as we practised our latest sport, dune running.
I couldn't quite believe it. To be riding a camel next to Hamish in the desert felt so familiar, having spent two long days doing the same on our last visit. But to look around and see my three amazing kids by our side, well, it was something else. They were all equally enchanted by the experience.
It was the stuff of dreams...
I am now officially loving being back here in Pushkar. We all are.
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