After a quick breakfast we stocked up on water and food for a picnic and headed out for a 3 km hike in the desert. We were headed towards Lawrence's Spring, named after TE Lawrence because he wrote about it in his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and it is supposed to be the place where he washed his clothes before heading into battle against the Turks. The Spring is half way up a mountain with huge stones and we climbed up to see the Spring and to have a view over the desert while we ate out lunch under the only tree we could see as far as we could see. As we walked back to the village, a sandstorm blew up and thank goodness it was blowing from behind us because as it was it was hard on the eyes.
We rested in the afternoon back at our campsite and luckily by the late afternoon the wind died down and Dad, Kathleen and I were able to have a camel ride into the desert with three Bedouins. The camels knelt down for us to be able to climb on so that when they stood up, you felt like you were falling off. When riding a camel you sway from side to side. Out in the desert, on the back of a camel with the wind blowing lightly around you with the sun setting was amazing.
At one point I was able to get my camel to go faster and it was lots of fun. That night we slept in tents out in the desert. It was so peaceful, but exciting and scary too!
After a quick breakfast we stocked up on water and food for a picnic and headed out for a 3 km hike in the desert. We were headed towards Lawrence's Spring, named after TE Lawrence because he wrote about it in his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and it is supposed to be the place where he washed his clothes before heading into battle against the Turks. The Spring is half way up a mountain with huge stones and we climbed up to see the Spring and to have a view over the desert while we ate out lunch under the only tree we could see as far as we could see. As we walked back to the village, a sandstorm blew up and thank goodness it was blowing from behind us because as it was it was hard on the eyes.
We rested in the afternoon back at our campsite and luckily by the late afternoon the wind died down and Dad, Kathleen and I were able to have a camel ride into the desert with three Bedouins. The camels knelt down for us to be able to climb on so that when they stood up, you felt like you were falling off. When riding a camel you sway from side to side. Out in the desert, on the back of a camel with the wind blowing lightly around you with the sun setting was amazing. 
At one point I was able to get my camel to go faster and it was lots of fun. That night we slept in tents out in the desert. It was so peaceful, but exciting and scary too!
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