It was something that we have always wanted to do. Take a camel safari through the desert and sleep under the stars. Rajasthan is the place to do it in India and we wasted no time booking a trip once we hit Jaisalmer. It didn’t turn out to be the mystical experience that we were expecting. The Thar Desert is more of a desert of shrubs and not exactly the most pristine landscape, but it did have it’s moments on the sand dunes where we felt like we had stepped back in time.After editing our video below, it has softened our memories of our time with our guide Bilal. He was a bit of a scam artist and gave us a hard time which you can read more about at our Camel Safari Adventure post, but on film he comes across as very sweet and genuine.
When a person has a bad experience doing something normally they will say to themselves…”Never Again.” When Dave and I have a bad experience, we say to ourselves…”We need to find way to give this another shot.” When we learned that we could go on a camel safari in Bikaner, a town 300 km north of Jaisalmer we just had to give it another try. The Camel man is an eccentric man that drives around in a Range Rover wearing a wide brimmed hat and impeccable suits. Vijay is his name and he has been running camel safari’s since 1983.
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