We went through many villages, we were able to see the deep Rajasthan, where a tourist would never stop -neither we did, if not, we'd still be on the road!-. Narish is quite a skilled driver; avoiding so many cows, groups of sheep, peacocks, camels and dogs can't be any easy ;).
We could see that conditions in the region are really hard; still, children often waved their hands smiling at us when we passed next to them.
We stayed half hour stopped while waiting a train to cross the "highway". We guess Narish was counting on this when telling us the duration of the trip :).
But the highlight was still to come. After we had stopped for a nice lunch, and while we were facing the final 60 km, we found a huge traffic jam in the so-called highway, in the middle of the desert. We went out of the car to find out that something huge was blocking the road. First thoughts were it might be a nuclear bomb or something -we are very close to the India-Pakistan border :p-, and after going for a walk between the cars and the crowd, we could see how a truck, wider than the road itself, was stuck while carrying a huge gas cylinder. 
One hour or so walking in the desert and chatting with indians and other tourists. Once again Narish's predictions were getting accurate. The final part was the funniest. An excavator machine had to come from I don't know where to flatten the sides of the road and make it wider in that point in order to reestablish the normal traffic. We were freaking out! :)
Finally, we arrived in Jaisalmer. It took around 9-10 hours at the end, so surely Narish was still expecting something else to happen... ;)
Hahaha!! You got to give it to them for their common sense... traffic jam? get a bulldozer, widen the road, on we go!
ResponderEliminarYeah! I could borrow some of that common sense for the traffic jams in Madrid ;) jeje, although I must recognize that the problem was solved indeed :)
ResponderEliminarHappy new year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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