Traveling to the Great Indian Desert | Part 2 Visiting the sand dunes
Dear steemit friends,
Happy Wednesday! I know the market is still down so lets not think about that for now..At least for me, let me relive through the happy moments.
Today I want to share with you a video of my first 's sand dunes experiences. I would recommend to watch the video first! Although there is no talking by me , but I hope you can traveled through the video.
This video is personal favorite of mine and I think I watched more than a hundred times. :D
After I had my lunch from Part1 at the hotel rooftop, I went to the lobby to check for the trip to sand dunes. After all, it's the reason I visited Jaisalmer, to visit the sand dunes. They told me that I could go today as there were no guests for tomorrow trip. Although I was exhausted , I decided to join.
Our group consisted of 2 Israeli travelers ( who quit their job to travel the world) , 3 Japanese whom 2 of them also quit their job to travel, one of them said the life in Japan was so stressful that he couldn't get away to travel.. and me!
We were going to sand dunes thatwas less popular and it required to travel slightly longer than the usual popular sand dune of Thar desert.
First we visited a local village , one of the Japanese had a very big camera so kids were curious.
The highways was good in condition , but the road was mostly empty.
Finally we arrived to a stop, where we met up with the locals and get ourselves on the camel. The camel was also loaded with the dinner for us.
I was a bit scared for the first ride on camel as I have read some horror stories of someone being dropped while riding. I was telling myself " no way, I am getting on this one" . If you didn't know , I tended to get scared of almost everything.
Finally, I managed to convince myself and got on one.
Camel actually is taller than it look from the photo. Once you are on the top, it's really high.. It's also not so comfortable like horse as the movement of camel make u go back and fort all the times. So you just have to follow him .
We passed through flat deserts and sand dunes and finally made a stop at one location.
We spent the evening on the sand dunes while our camel guide prepare for us dinner. The sand in the sand dunes was particularly very soft and it also get very windy.
Everything was having their own moment in the middle of nowhere and with nothing to get disturbed. It felt really amazing though. And then the sun finally set.
We then went back to our little camp where we had dinner. There were some tiny creatures that bite from the sand so it's not very pleasant, trying to avoid them. I also hear there can be snakes during the hot season.
At night, we had a camp fire and enjoy the starry blue skies. My camera was dying so I didn't get a very good long exposure shot. But here are some that I got from that day. The 4 of us came back to the hotel around 11 pm while the rest continue to spend the night in the sand dunes.
Close shoes are surely a must as the ground has full of spiky trees and spikes, unfortunately I was wearing slippers. What to say, I like wearing slippers.Overall, I really had amazing time and although it seems like a typical tourist thing to do but it surely is worth it and I highly recommend to have this experience on your travel bucket lists.
Thank you for reading , please check out the dtube link to watch the video.
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