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Album : Middle East : Egypt : Day 44 Bahariyya (33 items)
Highlights Of Egyp...My legs were tired, but I set out for my last adventure of my vacation. I walked into
the desert accompannied only by my shadow. I walked to the north and was blocked by the
soldiers. So I walked to the south, carefully avoiding the sentry, I walked up the
unnamed hills. The last desert sunset of my vacation, the moment that thrilled my
soul.
1) Black Desert
 Black Desert is the opposite of White Desert. As black is the opposite of white. But black or white, lonesome is the same. |
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2) Oasis
The oasis is made of trees, with trees, there's water, with water, there's people, with people, there's tourists, with tourists, there's garbage, with garbage, people left, without people, there's only desert. |
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3) Ruins
It might not be ancient but it is a ruin anyway. |
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4) Beneath The Sand Is Dark
I was wondering what's beneath the sand. For this case it's the volcanic sand. |
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5) Volcanic Sand
I walked into the desert by myself, on the ashes of dead volcano. Far away was a sentry station. They turned me back before I could walk too far. |
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6) Dark Sands
I thought desert was only made of sand. |
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7) Plants At The Desert
Farming in the desert. People need food, so they farm. |
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8) Grapes Burial
The nice schoolgirls gave me the grapes. They were very nice and kind. I buried the grapes in the desert, hoping a vineyard will grow from there a million years later. |
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9) Seeking The Root Of Desert Plant
I seek for the root of the plant and only found more sand. What's beneath the sand of desert, the answer is more sand. |
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10) Drawing Of The Desert Plant
The drawing of the wind. |
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11) My Footsteps In The Desert
This looks more like a desert than the other side. I carefully avoided the sentry on this side, not to make the same mistake as last time. |
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12) Myself And My Shadow
I, myself and my shadow, that's all I have at that particular moment. People were far away. I was alone in the desert. |
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13) Bahariyya Last Sunset
I looked at the sunset from an unnamed hill, alone in the desert, the last adventure of my vacation. |
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14) Last Moment Of Light
I have seen many sunsets, it's neither the “sun”, nor the "set" that's important. It's that particular moment of life, a one time only experience. |
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15) Sunset And Desert
The sun was leaving. I, alone, had to walk through the desert in complete darkness. Ha ha, how glad I had paid $200 for my GPS. A modern tourist might not be smarter but surely they are well equipped. |
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16) Twlights Of Bahariyya
That's the town (4km away). My destination is a camp about 2 km away from the city. It doesn't look too far. But in complete darkness (which happened quickly after sunset), it's still a challenge. I wasn't that wise after all. Even though I had my GPS, it wouldn't help too much if I had stepped on one of those desert snakes at night. I saw lots of living things in the dark. Luckily, none of those things were poisonous enough to kill me. And I couldn't use my flash fearing that it might grab the attention of the soldiers. They probably would shot me. I wouldn't blame them; no sane tourist would cross the desert at night. My GPS was fully utilized (as the camp was too dark to see at night and there was no trail in the desert). |
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17) Tree Root Stuff
The next morning, I walked around the oasis. This roots looked interesting enough to waste a few bytes. |
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18) Donkey Shit
Donkeys eat, donkeys shit, and so do men and women, civilized or barbaric, we just do it in a more subtle ways. |
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19) Beehive
Beehives. |
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20) Trees In Oasis
Oasis trees, nothing much to say about them. |
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21) Garbage Of Oasis
That's the most disgusting garbage heap I have seen in my life. |
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22) Desert Grass
Grass, desert. Yes, desert has grass. |
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23) Desert Canal
Canal, ok maybe those were some kind of crops they grown. |
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24) Desert Farmland
They were probably crops, or perhaps someone forgot to mown their lawns. |
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25) Birds Above Oasis
Birds like crops. Birds like worms. Birds like places with trees and water. |
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26) Ant Hills Of Oasis
Some kind of bug made these kind of holes in the desert. |
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27) Garbage Of Plastic Bottle
Garbage and garbage. There is no virgin land in the world. Everywhere had been defiled. Garbage and garbage. Even the desert cannot avoid the death touch of tourists. |
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28) Garbage Of Light Bulb
Ok, maybe this garbage doesn't belong to the tourists (I am assuming tourists won't bring light bulb on their trips). |
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29) Garbage Of Milk
Milk, doesn't look like tourist milk. |
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30) Dirty Spring Water
Dirty water. Yuck. |
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31) Beehive House At Bahariyya
Beehive house can shield the sun. |
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32) Cheap Shop In The Town
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33) Bus That Borke Down In The Desert
The bus was pretty bad, it broke down on the highway in the middle of nowhere. |
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