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Nimaj is an absloutely wondeful place. Middle of nowhere with 11 tents set up on the dam of a reservoir overlooking the lake with distant views of the Aravelli Hills and much agricultural land in between.
The campsite I can assure you is not of the Scilly Isles or Eurocamp variety. More like the Hilton under canvas with bathrooms of 7* standard. Our beds are set up to face the door and with the window blinds raised and the door open, we were able to sit in bed having had morning tea delivered at 7pm and watch the sun rise from across the lake.
The place is set up as a bit of a wildlife and bird watching reserve - with guided nature walks etc. We only stayed one night so did our own walk seeing parrots (incredibly noisy when disturbed), the much talked about but never seen peacocks, turtles both in the water and sunbathing, numerous waders, various long legged and other unidentified smaller birds. We also saw a jackal - thought it was a fox but the owner said they are much smaller here.
The main thing though was the peace. It was so quiet. Even on the night of Diwali. We could see the occasional firework from the nearest town 10 km away (by the way just looked up and seen a big red star burst in front of me whilst typing this in the open air courtyard of the hotel at Jaipur - the fireworks are still going 2 days after Divwali!).
The family owners do their own cooking using home-grown produce and with a full-board menu we ate simple but equisite food - Jane managed to munch on a red chilli thinking it was a red pepper and took a full 10 minutes before she could speak again! However that was very much the exception and we felt that we had picked a very unique and wonderful place as a stop over. If ever you make it to India Dad this place needs to be on your itinerary.
I think the name is Chattr Sagr - see if you can google it and find the website.
Photograph is from Delhi since still no way of downloading uptodate photos - need a card reader since every time i plug in the Canon i need to upload the software which is in the UK and would probably take an hour to do anyway. Must find an internet cafe since i am sure they would be able to do it.
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