There was snow on the ground, but the morning sky was clear. It’s quite a place, as you’ve probably heard. I was impressed. A pity I didn’t have one of these VR panoramic gizmos.
Archive for February, 2005
On the day we left there was a camel race between different clans of a single Bedouin tribe. Quite a spectacle, altogether. Here’s the winner at the finish.
Being something of a bricoleur, and relatively immune to torschlusspanik at the end of the week, I succumbed to a latent interest in untranslateable words. Briefly.
When I regained the use of my legs, we went for a walk through a canyon. Most of the rocks were pink but some of them were yellow with swirly patterns.
Then there was this. I’d forgotten how much I miss the mountains.
It may have been the fever, but when I leant back from a typically intense shesh-besh contest, there was this burning bush blazing against the sky. I was dazzled, captivated, delirious, sumptuously idle.
Did you guess? Only if you’ve been there too, I think. In my last post I was describing a place in Sinai, Egypt, beside the Red Sea. Under those heavy clouds them faint hills is Saudi hills.