on friday, we left at noon (group of 70 students who are studying arabic at ALIF) on buses to get to Erfoud around 7pm. we had a wonderful dinner and a nice time at the pool, then saturday we drove 2 hours further out into nowhere to our hotel and had lunch and an afternoon swim there. at 6pm saturday we got on camels and rode out led by our guides about 2 hours to a berber*-style camp bordered by enormous sand dunes (i climbed the largest one, along with some other adventurous souls). we had dinner there by candlelight, and listened to some berber music. we got up at 5 am to watch the sunrise, and rode camels back from 6-8am sunday morning. the 9 hour ride back was tedious, as everyone was extremely sore from the camels and several girls were sick from either eating too much or not drinking enough water. overall though it was quite the trip to remember, ranking up there with the safari my family went on in kenya.
*the PC term for berber is imazighen, which i fail to spell or pronounce correctly
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What happened to your hand? Did that thing bite it???
only kiddin' - reckon it's leftover henna. ;)
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