Camel Riding

One afternoon we had our chance to ride on the camels ourselves. They are large beasts, much larger than I had originally thought. They have extremely long necks that allow them to reach back to the rider – poor Brad had him camel continuously tried to wipe its nose on his shirt. Fortunately, the camel driver kept us all tethered together, each of us holding the reins for the camel behind. Unfortunately, that meant that you had your own camel who wanted to wipe his nose on you AND the camel behind who could easily reach your leg for the same thing. To be fair, the flies were pretty bad and I think they just wanted to scratch but it was pretty gooey when they did.
We rode the camels out to the sand dunes and back. It didn’t look like it was all that far but it took well over 2 hours. We did stop and enjoy some berries that grew on a small bush in the lower part of the dunes. We had to fight with the camels to have them though because the camels chewed up everything; bush, stems, leaves AND berries. The camels are much more a plodding animal than I had realized. They also have extremely wide feet, probably why they can navigate the dunes they way they do.
Sadly, the pictures we had of us on the camels didn't come out. There's the one of Brad getting off and that's it.