camel train

The stories "don't care how hard that's going to be — to stage the adventure of someone turning into a bird, a flying carpet, a camel train. So I have to find metaphorical or allegorical ways, symbolic ways or poetic ways, to stage those things, to make the audience believe they're seeing those things. I just love that."

Gently rolling prairies, carpeted in yellow-brown grass, stretch in every direction, with sheep, cattle, horses and, occasionally, a small camel train scattered across the endless landscape.

We saw everything from pirate ships to huge mechanical hyenas – this year Burners can feast their eyes on a camel train of giant tea pots and play on musical swings.

"On the camel train itself, that's when they met the Aboriginal people that were camping out in the bush, and they got connected then - that's how we are connected to Aboriginals."

Years ago, while walking with a camel train in northern Kenya, I remember coming across the bleached white dome of an elephant's skull.