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Travel Bucket List: A Camel Ride Through the Sahara Desert

Sep 15, 2019
Travel Bucket List: A Camel Ride Through the Sahara Desert
Travelers started the day with a pre-dawn camel ride in Morocco.
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In the days of planes, trains and automobiles, it’s rare to resort to a four-legged mode of transportation out of necessity.

Fortunately, there are magnificent exceptions. After a star-filled night in a desert camp on a tour of Morocco with Intrepid Travel, a pre-dawn camel ride across the Erg Chebbi sand dunes brought my travel group to a high enough vantage point to witness the sunrise over the Sahara Desert.

I hoofed on my own two feet for part of the journey so I could position myself at a low angle and catch the riders and their dromedaries silhouetted by the emerging daylight.

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