Camel safari

Riding a camel is no easy thing. Specially riding a horny one. It wasn't my case, but Dan had a good deal of it. He insisted on riding the camel besides the advisement of the owner that the animal could jump or bite without previous announcement. At all, did the camel follow his instructions and when another horny camel passed by, Dan's started to jump, as if trying to get rid of him, and then, trotted towards the other camel.

Before anything worse happened, the camel owner got to ease it with shouts of some kind. Watching everything from the cart was really entertaining. A variation from the monotonous landscape. Dan wasn't as pleased though.

When the jumps started he had both his hands occupied on his Ipod and could only hold with his legs, causing a scratch in his inner thigh. Just when he was thinking on throwing himself to the ground so not to fall under the camel and get smashed, it started to trot and he could regain his balance and hold on to the reins.

Back in the cart, the camel owners and me included were laughing from the situation and Dan's face. Scary but comical at the same time, and fortunately nothing really bad happened.

Besides that little accident, the camels went peacefully behind the carts hold by a rope. So there was no chance for jumping or going whatever way they wanted.

Though we were supposed to be in the desert, it didn't really fell like it and the landscape wasn't that appealing. The only dunes we got to see where at our campsite. There, the guide, a bit drunk by then, and the camel owners, amused us with a song about wood, lakadi in Hindi.

We had our choice on how to sleep. That is, either in a tent or outside. Dan and Charlotte decide to sleep outside and me and the English couple going with us on the safari chose the tent. The couple had their own tent, and I had one for myself. Though sleeping outside with a starred vault as a ceiling seemed amusing, wind and cold made me think otherwise. Might as well be getting old...

At the end, the experience was nice and new. Saw some antelopes and had some laughs. And ended totally knackered from the camel riding. One day was enough for me.