One evening in the Sahara Desert in Morocco, we rode camels. Riding camels was extremely fun, but then again, a little scary. The camels would move both right legs, then both their left legs, so it was a bit of a bumpy ride. We rode our camels on and on over the beautiful dunes while the sun set. Getting down from the camels was scary because they went face first, really fast. Luckily, I was not the first to get down, so I knew what was coming.
We walked through the incredibly soft sand to the tents that we would be sleeping in that night. They were Berber tents. The Berber are a tribe of people from southern Morocco, some of who are nomadic. When all the tents are set up together, it is called a bivouac.
We hiked up to the highest sand dune. Boy, was that tiring, but it was so worth it because we got to run down really fast.
We woke up the next morning and got to sand board. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! We rode the fat camels back to the hotel where our stuff was, with a few stops because Luke almost fell off his camel! We got down one more scary time, played in the Sahara for about 15 minutes. We got in the car, thinking we took half the sand of the Sahara in our shoes and our hair!
I did not realize that camels don't use alternate legs when they move and I did not know anything about the Berbers so thank you for the information.
ReplyDeleteI am glad Luke did not fall off the camel. It would have been a long way down and it sounded like he was already uncomfortable enough.
Sounds like sand boarding is the sport for you.