Arriving in Bikaner we were greeted by our hotel manager and taken to the hotel by tuk tuk. The hotel was very basic but clean, had friendly staff and doubled as a place we could book camel safari. We were sold on going on a day tour of some of Bikaners "must sees" including the Red Fort, a minarture artist, a Rajasthani embroidery factory, and then end at the temple. Even thought we weren't totally interested in seeing all the sights we were to tired to tell the hotel manager no so we decided we'd try it out. We weren't too happy about the hotel manager accompanying us on our "tour"; we're pretty sure he was a tourist tout trying to get commission off of what we purchased. What he didn't know was that we're actually browsers and hardly every buy anything. We did enjoy seeing the sights and found the rat temple to be very interesting!
Ready. Set. Camel Toe!
It was the day after full moon which meant that the moon lit up the entire sky making it too bright to see tons of stars. After we star gazed a bit we tucked ourselves away in our tee-pee tent which was free of any creepy crawlies while Harpool and the camel men slept outside on blankets. In the morning we asked how often they see snakes or scorpians out there; Harpool said there were many occasions that he woke up and a cobra or viper had slithered next to where his "bed" was beside the cart. He also said that it's common for scorpions to sleep underneath his bed. After hearing his stories we were so thankful we got to sleep in the tent!