Hiring a jeep

One of the reasons to travel with Dan and Charlotte, as I stated before, was to hire a jeep and explore Rajasthan in a less touristic way. The jeep not only would all9ow us to stop at little towns, but also risk ourselves into places the Lonely Planet did not talk about.

However, ours, was just a romantic idea. Hiring a jeep would never allow you to do that, as it involves, in a cheap manner, at least 5 people. These would be uncomfortable in the jeep, and my experience tells me, there would be a lot of tension in time of decisions.

At the moment being, I think that the best way to travel India is by motorbike, which I hope to be able to do some day.

So we headed for a cheaper option which discarded totally the jeep, and took into consideration a car. Getting a car was also the consequence of not being able to get more people to participate in the experience.

After not little bargaining on Dan's behalf, we got a very good price for a car, but at that moment, Charlotte wasn't involved and knew nothing about the change of plans. Once we had consulted her about the situation, we had to bargain again the price in a vain try to cheap up the jeep, but with no luck.

Charlotte was fond on going on an opened jeep, which Dan and I had already discarded because of the obvious discomforts, and even thought Charlotte wouldn't approve such a jeep. But apparently, her romantic idea did involve an open jeep, and we had to regain our charge and go for it.

As I said, we had no luck with the jeep, but there was still a little detail Charlotte had minded us of, and was that it made no sense to end up the trip at Jaipur, and we should end the trip in Bikaner. This was no easy bargain as our previous deal consisted on stopping the adventure at Jaipur. This was an obvious distress for the owners as going from Jaipur to Pushkar was only a 3 hour trip, while from Bikaner it took 6. However, we managed to get the same deal, and depart the following day at 10:30 am.