01/04/2010

Travel day, we woke this morning at 5am to get the bus towards Haridwar, the first part of the journey was from Jaisalmer to Bikaner on a local bus that was semi-deluxe with comfy seats but still chockablock full of Indians making it roasting inside and the outside breeze didn’t really help because we were in semi-desert and the air was extremely dry.

After the 5 hour journey to Bikaner we go off the bus again being surrounded with rickshaw drivers offering hotels and competing ride prices, its going to a point where its so unbearable that I tell them all to shut-it and shush them quite.

When figuring out how far the ride was to the train station the rickshaw drivers offered their prices, we got it from 80 to 10 rupees in a matter of seconds, selecting the guy with the cheapest offer.

We then dropped our stuff off the cloak room at the train station and wondered around town for a couple of hours getting some lunch and using the internet before boarding the train to Haridwar.

The train journey was great, watching ’Slum dog Millionaire’ a great film and well suited for the occasion being in India where it was filmed. Getting to sleep amongst the yelling of Indian passengers was a breeze with the help of some sleeping pills I bought in Jaisalmer. Although they should be prescription medication I bought 10 of these pills for rs23 over the counter, no questions asked.