ChinaSnap!: My first camel kiss + Gobi Desert

It’s the day after Valentine’s, but the love doesn’t stop here at Chinaful.  Here’s a ChinaSnap! to bring a little smile to your Wednesday.   

Chinaful - ChinaSnap! Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia

This is... documentation of my first camel kiss and my first trip to the Gobi Desert.    

At the time I took this ChinaSnap! I was... in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia and feeling caught in a dream. I was wearing "sand boots", those red socks sewn as a way to keep the sand out of your shoes.  I was hot, but it was a dry heat so it wasn't miserable like you might expect a desert to be.  

I remember... my camel being pretty cranky and not all that comfortable to ride, but a total blast. We also tried "sand skiing", sliding in our boots down the dunes. The sand dunes cut against the bright blue sky and even though I grew up on the Florida beaches, I had never seen that amount of sand in my life. In Chinese, the Gobi Desert is 瀚海 (Hanhai), which means "endless sea." That's exactly right - the sand appears like waves that never cease. The Gobi Desert is a sight you really have to see to believe.  (A guide to Inner Mongolia, including the Gobi Desert, is coming soon to Chinaful.)

This qualifies as a ChinaSnap! because... obviously, it’s hump day! (I'm usually not punny, but that one was too good to resist.) 

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