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We caught the train overnight from Delhi to Bikaner. Leaving Delhi at 10.30pm arriving in Bikaner at 10.30am. Train is a cheap and efficient means of travel in India and even at 10.30pm the trail station was quite full of people. We had a sleeper berth with our carriage having 24 berths. We were they only foreigners in our carriage, the rest being locals. I took the bottom bunk and Laurie the top and after pulling the curtains across both slept pretty well til morning. With some Chai tea from one of the stops to help wake us up we arrived in Bikaner before we knew it. We were met by the World Ex minivan and taken to a local hotel to freshen up and some lunch before setting off to the start of our camel adventure. As it was close by we decided we would visit the rat temple. Luckily they are so well fed they came no where near us but still can't understand the worshipping there. Our driver then decided to take a short cut to the beginning of our camel trek only to find us lost and almost bogged but we eventually made it. Due to our diversion to the rat temple we arrived a little late so just had a short introductory camel ride to see the setting sun and arriving at our first campsite to familiar site of the little orange World Ex tents that will be our homes for the next three nights. After a splendid dinner prepared by our cook Jeet we sat around the campfire and listened (and danced) to the traditional Indian folk songs played by Kishan on harmonia and his younger brother Atum on drums
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