Room 11

It was my room in the Renuka Hotel in Jaisalmer. The room cost me about $4 a night. Not a lot of money, but not the kind of room you want to write home about. I would have opted for a much better room, but the place was full of Lonely Planet backpacker types, who were wonderful company, and had gotten the better rooms before I got there. I can’t really say that I like standing in line to use the squat toilet down the hall, but I can say that all the great people who stayed at the Renuka made it significantly more tolerable.