Camels
Sahara Desert
Morocco
July 2008
They look nice and gentle. But they are not. They hiss at people. They drool and they get ornery and difficult at times. They smell. They are lumpy no matter how many blankets you throw on their hairy, prickly humps. They can be stubborn and uncooperative. They shit a lot. They are unpredictable. Sometimes our guides had to kick them in the ribs to get them to stand up. This made me nervous because I was sitting on the hump and feared that I was going to be tossed off in retaliation. I've been on three or four camel rides and all of them were stressful. I prefer to ride in a truck through the desert.
