Camels II

Good. Okay yeah so I told the guides that I did not want to stay with them and I took my stuff to the campsite. I met Rachel and Emily, two really fun English girls who are traveling on vacaation from university...imagine that. They later told me that it was really funny seeing me walk up because I was caaarrying ALL my stuff, including this really big pink leather handbag that I bought in Fes. Add that to the fact that by a lucky coincidence I happened to arrive by a private 4 by 4 ride, and they thought I was super rich or som ething. LOL . Anyway so I arrived too late to do a sunset camel tour, but one of the guides took me out on a camel in the near complete darkness. It was really neat......so peaceful. you really f orget that you are not the only one in the world. The n ight in the desert was also really cool, as the Berber guides prepared an amazing meal for us a la the Inca Trail. The three of us asked them to come eat with us, and they seemed really surprised. It makes me so mad that there are so many arrogant tourists that come through that don't want them to be around........I am embarassed for them. Anyway, we were more than repayed for our "kindness" because the guides took a liking to us and invited us into their tent for some music and then wee all headed out to the dunes until about 2am. they played drums and attempted to teach us enough Arabic to sing al ong. Afterward we sang the river soooong because it was the only one that we all knew the words to.