"Si le désert n'est d'abord que vide et silence, c'est qu'il ne s'offre point aux amants d'un jour"
If at first the desert seems vastly empty and silent, it's because it does not give itself to one day lovers"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince
Sooo, the desert, what an experience. We actually spent a couple days out there. The first night, we took a caravan of landrovers through the desert to get to our campsite. What a great experience. It kind of felt like we were in a movie (think Constant Gardener or something similiar) racing across the Sahara. That night was great. We stayed in a very touristy campsite on the dunes of the desert, complete with an electric generator and flushing toilets. The guys who worked at the campsite also doubled as musical entertainment, so we got to enjoy tuareg/Berber music around the campfire.
Pics from caravan-ing out there
Desert adventures!!
The next morning, Easter, we get up around 4:30 to watch the sunrise over the dunes. The one thing Gilles forgot to tell us is that the dune he had in mind was a ways away. Soo, after about an hour's boot camp-esque hike, we collapsed and got to watch the tail end of the sunrise, albeit from an incredible view. Unfortunately, it was so windy up there sand was blowing everywhere, and some got into my camera, and destroyed it. again. sooo, from here on out (minus the pics of the sunrise), pictures are ones that i'm borrowing from other people.
2 comments:
What an adventure.... and wall-to-wall carpeting in the tent no less!!!!
Que bueno!
Sooo....in addition to the camera, was there sand in the bed, sand in your teeth, sand in your pockets??? Even so, it sounds as if it was worth every granule.
Mom
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