Well, buying the train tickets in Delhi was a breeze, but the journey was a bit more tricky! Firstly, we have seen Michael Palin on the trains in India but for some reason it still took us about half an hour to work out how many beds there were! A wee cabin shared with a couple of other folk it was not. Anyway, after we had sussed out that everyone was going to be sleeping everywhere we settled down for the night - with a wee indian man booked into the bunk in the middle! - but it was not a good time for Irene to come down with Delhi Belly!!!.......
........1x busy train, 1x really minging toilet, 4x immodium, 1x antibiotic and 1x packet of tissues later Irene woke Graham at 4.00am to let him know that this was one of the worst nights of her life!! (being ill at the Malmaison really doesn't compare!). Anyway, we are hopeful that we have both now acclimatised - fingers crossed!
The other things which really did not go to plan with the train were that it took 14.5 hours instead of 10 - in light of the above - this was not good either and to top it all a singing quartet joined the train when I was trying to recover - we thought this was a joke. But we did eventually make it to Bikaner.
This was a nice desert town with a much more chilled out feel to it than the chaos of Delhi. The highlight of which was a wee trip out of town on the local bus to the Karni Mata temple - where some Indians worship sacred rats which they believe are reincarnated storytellers! We, however, just thought they were lots of rats running around everywhere in rat heaven and we were walking around in our bare feet in what must have been rat s***! Nice! G has recorded this experience on his camcorder and will put a link to it so you can judge for yourselves.
So we have left Bikaner now and arrived in Jaisalmer today. And we now plan to get around to going on the camel safari into the desert so we will be back in touch when we return.
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