Ride a camel
Date completed: 29th of August 2011
Where? Mombasa, Kenya
The camel was on the beach and we had to keep looking for it because it kept disappearing. We finally caught it one day whilst on a beach walk.
Summing up the experience: Not as scary as riding the elephant that’s for sure! The camel knelt down for us and we got on by standing on this man’s knee. He whistled and it stood up so urgently it was a bit of shock but not scary. We then had a nice walk down the beach and back again. Contrary to belief, the camel did not kick, spit or fart just to clear that up. He was quite sweet actually, he is called Mr. George. At the end he didn’t seem to want to kneel down so we could still be standing there now (I wouldn’t mind) he did eventually though and knelt on his front knees first so Lucy (who was at the front) went forward and I was still in the air and then I went down as well which was quite painful because I scraped my back on the chair. Oh well.