Existential Pains in the Desert

An alarm clock wakes us up at an ungodly hour of 5am. We take our backpacks and march through the narrow streets of Jaisalmer, the most western town of Rajasthan, near the border with Pakistan. At 6am sharp power gets disconnected in the entire Jaisalmer and we walk in a complete darkness, paying extra cautionContinue reading “Existential Pains in the Desert”

Gob(i)smacked M&M’s

Gobi, which means ‘great desert’ in Mongolian, is 1000 miles long and 500 miles wide of open space free from human interference, unchanged for hundreds of years. Sandy areas constitute only 3% of the Gobi Desert, the rest is pebble and tuffs of grass. Driving through the Gobi you pass roughly one or two gerContinue reading “Gob(i)smacked M&M’s”