So I booked myself busy for the last few days of my trip officially this morning. After a lazy day of sitting by the pool and studying Korean, I went on my first excursion here in Sharm. It was definitely a fun one too. . .
I was picked up at the hotel around 4pm, in a van full of European folks, mostly English, and they were all very friendly. We went to a little spot in the desert where men and little kids were waiting on us with their camels. We boarded our camels, and went on a little ride. . The ride only lasted about thirty minutes, and then we were taken to a tent and served hot tea (on a hot day), and cold water. We waited, for a while, watched people make bread out of a hole in the ground, and then finally got to see the sun setting.
We walked up a rocky "hill" if you want to call it that, and all struggled for positioning as we were taking pictures of each other with the sunset in the background. The sunset was magnificent to say the least. I could have gone back to the hotel after that personally, but I had to stay to enjoy my somewhat lackluster dinner. . . It was more of a cookout than a traditional Bedouin meal. At least there was some watermelon (hope my stomach at least enjoyed that, since I've been on a fluid diet throughout the day).
While we were eating we enjoyed some belly dancing, and some traditional Egyptian dancing of other sorts as well. We then were treated to a good twenty or thirty minutes of stargazing, with an Egyptian who is a really good astronomer (I guess that's what those folks are called). He pointed out a bunch of cool constellations and important stars to us, and explained some other stuff that I couldn't quite retain.
Anyway, enjoy some of the photos!!
The camels waiting to do some work
Doing a little ridin'
Beautiful sunset
The sunset again
I was picked up at the hotel around 4pm, in a van full of European folks, mostly English, and they were all very friendly. We went to a little spot in the desert where men and little kids were waiting on us with their camels. We boarded our camels, and went on a little ride. . The ride only lasted about thirty minutes, and then we were taken to a tent and served hot tea (on a hot day), and cold water. We waited, for a while, watched people make bread out of a hole in the ground, and then finally got to see the sun setting.
We walked up a rocky "hill" if you want to call it that, and all struggled for positioning as we were taking pictures of each other with the sunset in the background. The sunset was magnificent to say the least. I could have gone back to the hotel after that personally, but I had to stay to enjoy my somewhat lackluster dinner. . . It was more of a cookout than a traditional Bedouin meal. At least there was some watermelon (hope my stomach at least enjoyed that, since I've been on a fluid diet throughout the day).
While we were eating we enjoyed some belly dancing, and some traditional Egyptian dancing of other sorts as well. We then were treated to a good twenty or thirty minutes of stargazing, with an Egyptian who is a really good astronomer (I guess that's what those folks are called). He pointed out a bunch of cool constellations and important stars to us, and explained some other stuff that I couldn't quite retain.
Anyway, enjoy some of the photos!!
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