Camel Christmas Tree Ornament

This camel ornament was a gift from my sister when she was living in Cairo, Egypt. I was fortunate to spend one Christmas with Ruth and Al while they had a posting there. I was living in Kuwait at the time and a friend and I travelled to Cairo for our school break.

We had the opportunity to see many camels on that visit. Santa even arrived at the resort we were staying at riding a camel!

This camel is sitting down just like the one I posted yesterday.

Camels are able to bend their knees and tuck their legs under them. Each leg has two knees. The camel can manoeuvre their knees to sit down. Getting the camel to sit down is necessary for riders to climb up and down. The camel kneels on his two front legs first and if you are sitting on his back you think you are going to fall forward onto the ground. Next the camel bends his two back legs and sits back before lowering his chest over the two front legs. For tourists, this is probably the scariest part of a riding adventure.

Pam LeBlanc wrote in her blog post that riding on a camel feels like riding a rocking chair strapped to the top of a stepladder that’s being dragged across a gravel road.

There is definitely a lot of rough rocking and rolling.

I think my camel is saying hop on, let’s enjoy a great adventure.

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