a very obvious tourist recommendation but I wasn’t expecting to feel so much awe — I was excited to see them on this trip but I figured with seeing them so much in films and photographs, and with so many people telling me oh it’s so busy and theres loads of scammers and theres so much trash etc etc… I felt a bit desensitised. Those things are sort of true but it doesn’t really have any impact on how incredible they are! If anything, seeing them for the first time in the Uber made it all the more surreal and wonderful. They’re just suddenly there.
I kept thinking about how insane it must have felt to see them before we had all seen a million photos and heard a million stories and then been asked a million times if we want a photo on a camel and my brain just can’t process it — sheer awe and beauty.