More pics to follow So, we succumbed to the painful but hilarious camel safari - only for a day and night though. We had heard various stories about taking a camel in the Thar desert but we thought we would give it go. And everything that everyone says about the experience is true in that it's extremely uncomfortable having your legs spread about 3 feet apart, dangling with no stirrups, 7 feet up in the air, balanced on a loads of cushions for hours at a time. But it is also a fantastic experience. We met our guides - Mangelsingh and Hussain early in the morning along with our camels...mine called Rahul, very beautiful, quite shy and very chilled, Monkey, Simon's first camel - who was being kept on a very tight rein - and Bubble,
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