Fifteen days. Traveling between 20 and 25 kilometers a day, mostly walking because of windstorms - sand blowing into your eyes in spite of cheich-wrapped face surrounding sunglasses...
One day of very hot weather - checked my thermometer at noon - 46 degrees until it cooled to 42... Cold nights sitting around the fire, snugly wrapped in a warm burnose...
Then the swim at the healing warm water of the hot spring.... Even the camels had a swim in the cool pools...
Meeting a few nomads along the way, along with their spring born baby goats... One night hearing the cries of a mother camel giving birth to her baby through the night, then the cry of the baby...
February the shrubs are in bloom- luscious fragrant blooms fill your lungs as you chance by... Even the camels enjoyed the fragrance...
When riding, I rode a 'normal' saddle this trip, as my new toureg racing saddle was still being made...
Some nights the huge sky lit up in a kaleidoscope of colour, surrounding the world in vibrant shades of blue, orange and rose...
One photo shows what a male camel looks like when he is in heat and has spotted female camels (or is just thinking about them!), a dark pink frog-like balloon coming out of the side of his mouth, accompanied by a low deep groaning noise and gurgling... (VERY sexy!)
Enjoy the photos! Love, Juanita
