Achalvanshi Colony Park, Dr. K. L. Achalvanshi Colony, Jaisalmer, Kishan Ghat, Rajasthan 345001, India
We left Hotel Goyal Palace just after dawn. One of us sat belted in a pale leafy shirt, a tricolour pin on his chest, a yellow-and-red tilak on his forehead, beige vents above and trees sliding past. On a yellow-sandstone street a white board named Desert National Park and the raw wilderness of the Thar: the great Indian bustard, Rajasthan’s critically endangered state bird, a desert fox and an Indian fox, tickets at…