This weekend I went to a desert about 2 hours south of Saint Louis. I went with three other volunteers who had all arrived within the past two weeks. We organized it with a travel guide in Saint Louis who drove us to the desert and back. We drove along the road and stopped at several places including:
1) a 150 year old Baobab tree that looked like Rafiki’s tree in the lion King
2) a small village where we were given a huge bag of peanuts
3) a spot just on the side of the road where we sat under the shade of some trees and had a picnic.
We got to the desert around 3 in the afternoon, where we were shown to our little campsite tent/huts.
Then we went for a walk through the desert. I had never been to a desert before, and this place was just incredible. The Lampool Desert is actually quite small and from one of the bigger sand dunes you could see the entire barrier of trees that encircled the desert. The sand was very fine, and had a really interesting orange tint to it that made it almost glow in the sun. It was an amazing feeling climbing to the top of an enormous sand dune and being able to see this beautiful sand stretching out for miles upon miles.
Later in the afternoon, we went on a camel ride which was just such a cool experience. Check out the video and pictures below:
For dinner, we had a nice three course meal at the campsite. It was a really surreal experience because we were eating at tables with cutlery and tablecloths etc, but we were in the middle of an actual desert. Overall It was just a really nice, relaxed experience. I’ve put up a lot more pictures on fb if you wanna see more of the trip.
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