The tour to state wid the brightest colors

Am in India now spending 4 months at home. Me,bro,dad and mom in one place after what seems like a decade. My mom decided we should make use of the LTC and go some place for a week !! Initially, the plan was to go to Sikkim and Darjeeling but the state declared a band the day before our scheduled departure! So with lots of gruts and financial losses, we rebooked our flights to Rajasthan. I should say that is a decision we dont repent about now! Its a lovely state with beautiful culture and wonderful people ( dressed in bright colors of red, blue, yellow etc etc). The colors might look gaudy in chennai but they looked stunning in that state (strange??). The forts , palaces were decorated in gold and silver (looks like the kings those days were filthy rich).. We started at Jaipur and then followed our route to Jodhpur, jaisalmer and then bikaneer. There are a few events in the trip that i can never forget. One of them being the Jain temple we saw at Bikaneer. The architecture was stunning. The fine carvings on sandstone look like the ones done on wood, they were so precise!! Ofcourse, the sand dunes in Jaisalmer shimmered like gold in the sunset ( a view that you have to see for yourself. no amount of words or photos can match the beauty). The awfully painful camel ride to the desert made it worth even more :D
The weirdest memory is of this temple we visited on our way. My parents walked straight to the interior of the temple while me and my bro were taking baby steps absorbing the beautiful carvings on the temple walls. For some reason i stared down to find millions of rats running in all directions on the temple floor. I was schoked , frightened, terrified ... i yanked my bro and ran out!! A few enquiries outside revealed that the god in the temple was a rat and hence they breed these rodunts there! No amount of persuasion made me get back in there. People around were offended. The story behind it is interesting though. The king of that place had been captured when his son's marriage was about to happen. The queen desperate to have her husband out prayed to the local goddess who took form of a rat and freed the king!! Hence the strong belief in these creatures!!
Luxury hotels, a comfortable car, yummy food ( parathas, nans, rotis with all kinds of side dishes) completed the last minute yet splendid tour of rajasthan!!