<p>The International Camel Festival, held in India’s northwest, featured a camel race that enthralled locals and tourists alike.<br /><br />Jockeys raced the camels across the sand in front of the huge crowd, which excited Australian tourist Moya.<br /><br />"Yeah it's been really great. We have come from Bikaner town, travelled out here. We saw the wrestling, the camel races, lots of fun. Nearly got run over by a camel. It's really good, yeah it's fun,” Moya said.<br /><br />The three day festival (January 26 to January 28) also offered visitors the opportunity to watch camels dancing to traditional music, camel decoration competitions and camel wrestling.<br /><br />"It's my first time seeing a camel race in my life but it was really cool. It looks really dangerous. Yeah the whole festival is cool, there's a lot of activities all the time. The wrestling was really cool as well," said Joseph, a tourist from Ireland.<br /><br />Camels are often referred to as the 'ship of the desert', because of their incredible ability to store water in their humps for several days.</p>
