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So, after pligrimming for a while I decided to go camel riding for 3 days in the desert. I think that camels were part of my destiny for some time, and on Sunday it became reality. With two travel companions, Gil and Cedric, I book a tour (yes, a tour for tourists and everything) to go camel riding for 3 days/2 nights around the giant sand dunes of Dunhuang.

We thus started this thing with a strong feeling of being scammed just like any other fool tourists, and as we would later realise it was a sort of scam. We paid too much.

But as we were getting going we put our anger on the side and decided to enjoy this thing; and it was really cool. The suffocating heat and our sore ass made us understand the Bedouin life. Also my camel had some driving issue and was always on the side. But I fast learnt to sit and enjoy. Camels are a quite comfortable thing (for a while). It was the occasion to take some nice pictures, get a Central Asian suntan, and climb a dune that was high as something very (very) high. Camping in the desert is also a fun experience, but the best was when we found a little stream with some shade available and water to clean ourselves.

One of the most thrilling moment of this trip was running down from the gigantic dune, creating a mini-sand avalanche, and hearing the whole dune resonating as the sliding sand was making vibrations. Quite nice also was to arrive back in town as this lazy trek was in fact exhausting.

And now I’m barely able to concentrate so I’ll take a nap before going to Turpan tonight!