Day 4 - Camel Buckaroo

Went on a safari today. It consisted of travelling through the desert in a jeep, a camel ride and some more snorkelling.

The desert was interesting, the landscape was just amazing. We were in the middle of the Sinai mountain range but it felt like a different planet. The dirt and undulating land gave you the feel of the surface of the moon with its widen open landscape nearly completely barren.

We met up with a bedouin tribe who brought us further through the desert on camels. At first I was a bit hesitant about getting up on the massive bony beasts but when you got up you started to enjoy this stylish form of transport. I was half thinking of bringing one of them back to one-up the kids in Ballymun with their horses. Plus I'd like to see peoples faces if you pulled up to a drive-thru on one.
Halfway through the trek the headscarfy thing I had fell off and I didn’t realise. The camel started jumping and twisting to try to get the scarf off which had got caught in its legs and I was left to hang on for dear life as the camel played a game of "Buckaroo" with me. I somehow managed to hold on though, I guess I’m a natural at camel rodeo.

Later on we headed to a beach to do some more snorkelling. This was well needed after spending a few hours in a jeep and on smelly camels. Saw about 5 lion fish there which was wicked because they look really savage and they're dangerous if provoked!

Bryan