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<\/a>This was really the color of the desert sand. It was so beautiful there. It wasn't too hot. It got a bit cold at night. Not a view I will soon forget!<\/p><\/div>\n
I wondered a lot how long it took for the\u00a0wind to blow the footprints out of the sand.\u00a0 We created a\u00a0lot of footprints but somehow the sand ended\u00a0up like this again.\u00a0 \u00a0If it wasn’t for the power lines here and there, it would have seemed like I was a million miles away from civilization.\u00a0 It was awesome!<\/p>\n
<\/a>When I take pictures of things I like to take things from a wide perspective and also up close. This was taken in a different direction from the sun so the color is a bit different than the previous picture. <\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Camels are some of the craziest looking creatures I have ever seen...and some of the strongest. Although we weren't on the camels for a terribly long time each day, they did carry us up and down dunes with ease and skill. I was a little nervous a couple of times when my camel would run down the dunes. As the trip went on, the nerves calmed and going down hills was actually pretty fun!<\/p><\/div>\n
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It was fun to watch the camels.\u00a0 The way they eat. They way the chew. The way the walk. They way they ‘smile.’ Their feet. Everything about them is so funny. And this just in…I didn’t see one camel spit.\u00a0 I wonder if it’s a myth.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Speaking of smiling. \ud83d\ude42 They were so cute. A different kind of cute than the pandas. They were also so funny.<\/p><\/div>\n
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This camel’s name was Xiao Bai \u5c0f\u767d.\u00a0 It means “little white”.\u00a0 He wasn’t so little (or white for that matter) but he was whiter than the rest of them.\u00a0 He was sort of the “drama queen” camel.\u00a0\u00a0So much so, that the camel driver let the person riding him go on his own with him just because he had a hard time being in a group of camels!<\/p>\n
<\/a>I also found this guy while I was wandering in the desert. We saw tons of little tracks in the sand. (When I say little, I mean smaller than a camel print or a human print.) The small tracks belonged to various bugs, these little guys, and--according to the guides--foxes. <\/p><\/div>\n
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He wasn’t that big. I was able to get pretty close to him to take his picture.\u00a0 It didn’t seem like he was afraid of me at all.<\/p>\n