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Article: Holidays: A desert romance; Indian break away.(Features)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2003
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Byline: JOANNE LANE
IT wasn't love at first sight but it was close. I was immediately entranced by his rugged good looks and tanned skin.
When he turned his lovely fuzzy head towards me, I melted into his deep brown eyes. He greeted me with a soft flutter of long eyelashes and a proudly upturned nose. I was smitten.
His name was Peacock, a camel that would transport me through the Thar desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan -the region visited just last week by the Prince of Wales.
The Thar desert lies on the edge of Jaisalmer, a desert ...