Jain temple

I had a horrible night sleep.  Being full moon, dogs were howling.  Then the temple chanting went into the wee hours of the night.  And at dawn, the azan from the mosques had their turn.

I didn’t make it to breakfast at Krishna’s Boulangerie till after 1000.  I continued to the Jain temple around 1100.  It was actually a good time for visiting temples as they were open to visitors then.  [Edit:  I later learnt that the temple is one of the seven constructed around 15th and 16th century within Jaisalmer’s fort.  It was called Chandraprabhu Temple.]

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Feeling lazy, I took a rest back in my room before a lunch of thukpa at the Tibetan place.  Thukpa is just a Tibetan-style noodle soup.  It was so good to taste MSG again after Indian food (which I love as well).

Back in my room, Lachlan came over for a visit around 1630.  Having recently trained in Thai massage, I gave him a fifty-minute massage with lots of pressure point.  [Edit:  He eventually trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine including acupuncture, which he does have an interest in non-Western healing.]

We went for a couple of beers across the road at the Sunset Palace before dinner at Saffron restaurant.  The restaurant was located inside Nachna Haveli.  The food was OK:  chicken (with bones) in cream and cashew gravy, chilli chicken, rather salty rice and roti.  I finished with ice-cream and ginger tea (without milk, unlike in Malaysia).

At dinner we chatted.  I joked that with all the litter, heat, poverty, I seldom feel clean in certain poor countries.  And I don’t understand how one particular nationality can come to this country for sex tourism. Or how people in cramped accommodation with an entirely family in one room can find the desire or opportunity for intimacy and end up having large framilies.   We both agreed that, personally, the desire for intimacy is definitely a casualty but obviously it isn’t true for some people.