Desert Storm

This is how our trip into the Pushkar Desert began, blue sky, sun and in a really good company with our guide. We would never have imagined what will happen a bit after.

Maybe half an hour into our desert trip we started to notice how the sky began to change, really dark and weird, I felt like in a movie where suddenly all the mood changes into something really dark and mysterious, even the camels started to act uneasy.

I thought some rain was coming so I started to think about our options of shelter but as you can imagine we didn't had that many.

This was our guide and this moment portraits for me the popular expression "The calm before the storm". It was exactly it.

And then we had to run, we jumped on our camels and between a storm of sand and then rain we had run to take shelter, this was exactly as I was seeing everything, or better, nothing. Seeing nothing in the middle of the chaos and was the most amazing adventure. This is what life is made of.

Desert Storm

by Joana Maria Sousa (Portugal)

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