I can only say "ditto"! to all the comments below! Have been fascinated by camels, ever since I galloped around the Pyramids on one, long ago! they have "unusual" characters, and can be very perverse! Thanks so much, keep enjoying your travels and sharing with US!!
— Eleanor Robb, May 24, 2007

A pretty good example of how to get all from almost nothing, it's clear you don't need magnificient buildings to produce beauty. Absolutely wonderful.
— Jose Manuel Echevarría and Pilar León, April 17, 2007

Marvelous!
This is an absolutely marvelous article, Lorraine. I recall your comment on my Khajuraho pictures bemoaned the fact that your 2007 trip wouldn't include that part of India. Well, I'm certainly glad you went to places we missed, especially the places on this camel trek. Now we want to go back and experience your adventures. Well, most of them...
— Bob Fairbanks, April 10, 2007

Thorn bush
Hi Rainy,

Loved the pics and hearing about your adventurous trip.

I especially liked the pics of the trees because I learned about them at uni, as they are a major 'pest' in Australia and apparently native to Pakistan... They are called: Prickly acacia for common name in OZ or:Acacia nilotica in Latin.

They are really hardy and invasive. Attempts to get rid of them in OZ, havent worked as ploughing them spreads seeds and they can germinate in inhospitable conditions and spread easily when pods are dispersed by water/rivers etc.

Well, great pics ;) Lisa
— Lisa Beauchamp, April 1, 2007

NO Rainy
Great photos but I wanted to see rainy on a Camel or crossing the roads in India. Geoff wants to know whose hand you held onto on this trip????? Ps Third trip with Perigrine gives you 10%discount in Oz hope you gotit in Canada. Cheers G&C
— Geoff & Colleen Castleman, March 30, 2007

Thank you for a very interesting article and photos.
— Chris and Rich Hanley, March 30, 2007

It was a Peregrine Adventures Tour
For those of you who would like to know which tour I took, it was with Peregrine Adventures, an Australia company. It was the 3rd tour I have taken with them. The other 2 were to northern Thailand & Vietnam. This 18 day tour was called "Images of Rajasthan", & the itinerary & tour route map can be found here: http://www.peregrineadventures.com/india/overview.asp?trip=2445
— Lorraine Brecht, March 28, 2007

I love the first two photos a lot... perfect postcard pictures...what an adventure.. feel indiana jonish??
— Jon J. Tan, March 28, 2007

Good Lord, Rainy ...
just when I think you've done everything that can possibly be done on your safaris, you ratchet your production up yet another notch or two. Here, the background information you provide is all-inclusive,and the quality of the photos is uniformly outstanding: perhaps the best collection of photos I've yet seen published by anyone on this site. Finally, your sense of humour adds just that little "je ne sais quoi" that keeps the reader forging full speed ahead. Awesome!
— Fred Perry, March 28, 2007