of the road, then before we knew it we were pulling into the very long and impressive Camel Camp driveway! We were met by one of the owners and a host of staff. Wow we weren’t used to all this attention and it was a far cry from the dismal room at Shimla Youth Hostel! The place was just incredible, the surrounding walls to the camp were built in a sort of fort like style and the inside was very tastefully designed, we were shown the two different tents and immediately decided on the more luxurious one - no surprise there! The tent was ace, it had a proper bathroom at the back, with a beautiful sandstone based shower and western loo and it overlooked a small sand dune in the direction of sunset! We arrived around 4.30 and we informed that our camels would be ready in about an hour, which gave us enough time to go WOW about 50 million times! I was still feeling a bit iffy but was determined that it wasn’t going to spoil my fun. Sure enough about an hour later our camels were waiting and it was time to

climb aboard and see what riding a camel was like! We had decided to take the Canon camera so we could get some good sunset photos - not the best idea really! Although we got some great photos it was a bit tricky trying to hold the camera and hold on! You really did have to hold on tight when the camel got up, and they had a really long lolloping stride, so it took a while before you felt quite comfortable on it! Mind was a girl camel and the lead camel, there was me and the main camel man on mine and Rob and his camel minder on his, fortunately my man spoke quite good English so I was able to have a chat with him, unlike Rob’s man who couldn’t speak English, which didn’t matter too much as it was incredibly peaceful riding around the desert at dusk! The camels liked to stop every now and again to have something to eat, there wasn’t much moving them when they wanted to stop but as you are so high up the views were stunning and it was a good photo opportunity! The sunset was better than we had