True to his word he soon returned with several bottles of kingfisher , kept cool in a wet linen sack . We slurped the blissfully refreshing beer sitting in the sand crunching away on some brightly coloured rice snacks our hosts had set out to tide us over until the dinner was ready .
When the sun had set making way for a pale crescent moon , the smell of fragrant dal fry and chapatis rose from the tiny fire at the bottom of our dune and we joined our hosts . Between mouthfuls they shared a little about their semi-nomadic life
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