Camel Riding … Part 2

It is still surprising to see just how tall the camels are. You really don’t expect them to be so tall when you think about riding them. After our first try, it was time to try again. We found a camel vendor at the scenic overlook. The vendor was going to give me a camel ride from the overlook to the smallest of the three Pyramids. Ok, no problem, it doesn’t look that far. And then things got interesting ...

Instead of the vendor walking the camel to the Pyramid, he passed me off to a small boy, probably 8 years old. We found a camel, hopped on, and we were off. The ride started out just fine.

About halfway to the Pyramid, we stopped. The boy walked up to another camel that was tied to a rock and happily eating something. The boy whipped the camel and pulled at its rope. The camel was not happy and growled at the boy. This upset my camel. Here is the scene, we are in the middle of the desert, an 8 year old boy is whipping an angry camel and holding the rope to my upset camel at the same time. All of this occurs while I am sitting 23 feet in the air (probably 8), on top of a camel.

The second camel finally goes to the ground and the boy hops on. Then the boy ties my camel to the back of his very angry camel. Somehow this does not seem like a good idea. We eventually made it to the Pyramid. A successful ride!