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Article: The most exotic road movie of all; Alex Finer enjoys a tour of the beauties of Rajasthan at a breathtaking pace.
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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AS HE nonchalantly swerved out of the path of lorries coming over the brow of a hill on the wrong side of the dual carriageway, it was clear that our driver was key to surviving this 1,700-mile journey around Rajasthan.
Even travelling into town from the airport, Sonu manoeuvred the leather-seated 4x4 Ford Endeavour carrying me, my wife and daughter around the cows - sacred animals to Hindus - that wandered all over the highway.
Defined by the colour of the houses, our Indian journey included the white city of Udaipur, on Lake Pichola, the blue city of Jodhpur, and golden Jaisalmer, near the Pakistan border, via a safari camp at Osian to Rajasthan's ...