The guides load up and tend the camels each day, as well as fix our meals in the desert. An older, more mature guide accompanies, whose English is limited. This is well made up for by his cooking skills, producing hot meals 2-3 times daily over tiny, desert fires made from skimpy sticks of dried vegetation. The food is monotonous but hearty. Camels carry tremendous loads with apparent ease.
Initial comfort disappears after an hour of travel.
We travel for 4-5 hours each day. The reader can do the arithmetic. They do, as legend suggests, drink quite a bit at one time. I find it helps me to constantly hum the theme song from Lawrence of Arabia. Some travellers to this part of India are disappointed with the desert, expecting the vast expanses of sand found in the African Sahara.