Camel Safari

Sailing Through The Golden Hue...
If you travel to Rajasthan, the best way to get the real feel of the place is get on a camel and hit the desert trail. It's a wholly different experience sailing through the vast expanse of golden sands on a Camel Safari.

Dotted with picturesque hamlets with friendly folks, the ride through the sand landscape of the vast Thar Desert, camping on the solitary oasis, experiencing the dark starry nights and jiving to musicians playing a haunting, stringed instrument is simply out of the world. It takes one to an experience of the days gone by when time drifted at a leisurely pace. The rolling landscape of the unrelieved ocean of sand and xerophytic shrub covered area is breathtakingly beautiful and the range of flora and fauna surprisingly large for a desert area.

The special cultural performances on the sand dunes, the camps set up for the travelers, the traditional Rajasthani meals, and exploring the offbeat track leading to villages, cities, temples, palaces, abandoned fortresses and animals of the sandy wilderness all make Thar Desert Camel Safaris Asia's fastest selling adventure holidays. The Raikas (camel breeders) are the best guides. They know every pasture, waterhole and village of the region. One can ride or walk along leisurely with the safari and enjoy the desertscape. The camel carts are fully equipped and tourists need not bother about comfort in the desert.

Camel Safaris can be tailored to suit every modern traveler. One can plan one's safari that takes only a few hours or one that is perfect for a weekend or a longer one that takes you through the medieval cities. Itineraries of 2 to 7 days can be arranged traversing approx. 40-50 kms a day on camel. These itineraries are planned in the region of Bikaner, Khimsar, Osian and Jaisalmer. Night halts are usually given near the village to provide opportunities to mingle with the local village folks and to provide insight to the traditional way of their life and culture.