Some Enchanted Evening

The most unusual come-on I have had during this trip was when the camel leader said to me, “Your camel very tall strong camel. Very horny sexy camel. He goes with wife for 6 hours. Tonight I will show you.” Uh, a date to watch camels have sex for 6 hours? Can I get back to you on that?

Our trip to ride camels out to the desert and sleep under the stars was off to a great start. I was in love with my camel and he was in love with all the lady camels of the world. I wanted him the moment I saw him amongst all the camels mounted for our group. His name was Ferrari and he was tall, although I couldn’t tell until he stood. He had big dark eyes under long lashes, tattoos and a flash of white teeth. I ran over to him, “now that’s a handsome camel.” 

We weren’t very long into the trip when he leaned over to orally investigate the lady parts of the camel in front of us. “His wife” the guide said with a giggle, indicating the camel he was riding, “and his baby” he pointed at a young camel walking alongside mine. Shortly thereafter, Ferrari checked out some females hanging out in the desert, inflated his tongue like a pink inner tube and blew a wet raspberry out the side of his mouth. It was rude and undeniably a sexual come on. The camel equivalent to “hey baby, cumma my house and let me show you a good time.” The leader turned and giggled, “your camel horny.” Yup. Got that. It happened enough times for the aforementioned date conversation to not seem too out of place. Check out the wife, check out the other options, invite them along. 

For all that, it was a lovely ride through the cacti and scrub and into the sand dunes. We stopped in the dunes at sunset for photo ops and to make our camp. Ferrari & I got to cuddle a bit before he and the other males were led away from the females. Sorry boys, no 6 hour romps tonight.

We camel tourists were given snacks and chai and got to know one another. One fella with us was from a Rajasthan village and was touring around his country as a musician. He sang us some beautiful songs as the stars came out. We build a fire and sat there until dinner was served. The stars were incredible, as though we were sitting under a dense multi-layered canopy of fairy lights.

Bed was simple. A pad on the sand with a sheet on and a blanket over. I kicked myself for not bringing my inflatable pillow from the hotel. The sand was really hard and beetles and desert dogs kept crawling in with us. I didn’t get much sleep but the stars were so magnificent that I really didn’t mind. The waning moon came over the dunes around 4:30am.

Breakfast was chai with sand, gritty thin sand porridge and toast with sand and jam. Then it was back on the camels. 

Ferrari seemed pleased to see me and we didn’t meet any females along the way. When we got to the end, I was giving him a good hug & scratch and a couple other ladies joined in. Everyone seemed scared to touch their camels but when they saw me & my guy they knew he was sweet and came to give him a pat. When we were all done he inflated and blew his tongue again while looking straight at me. The camel guy’s take? “Weird. Very sexy camel” and he giggled.