Sahara

Photo from the White Desert. The whole landscape looks like a Salvador Dali painting. The first day of the camping trip was really bad because there was a sand storm. Sand got everywhere, camera, nostrils, ear, eyes, clothes and even food. But as the wind died and the sand began to settle, the sky became red and I felt like I was on another planet. Actually some bits of the desert really look like a star wars set.
There is also the Black desert, where metallic rocks litter the landscape and crystal rocks jut out from the ground. And then of course, there is the Great Sand Sea. The desert is really a land of extremes, of extreme temperature, of extreme beauty and extreme nothingness. Throughout the four days, it was just my guide/driver and Azizzah, our trusty 4X4. The guide was a bona fide bedouin who navigated the desert without GPS or any maps. Cooking over an open fire and sleeping under a blanket of stars, watching falling stars drop from the heavens, wandering the night landscape illuminated by moonlight watching the ethereal shadows cast by the moon. It was the first time I have ever seen the moon cast shadows. I loved the solitude and peace of the desert.
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