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From the desert to the mountains

Posted by atrabuccoc | 28th May 2007

The brief camel trek consisted of one camel, Youssef (my guide) and me.
We headed out into the desert around 5pm on Friday the 26th of May, into the then windy dunes of Erg Chebbi.
Winds at around 40 knots lifted up the sand and created a layer of flying sand that created a beautiful contrast with the sand that was below.

Youssef and me had respectively an orange and blue 6 meter Tagelmust around our heads, which is used by the Tuaregs and other Berber Saharian tribes to repair themselves from the sands lifted during high winds.

I started off on the camel, but I soon grew very uncomfortable being on it by myself and having Youssef walking all the way. So I got off after 10 minutes and followed the camel led by Youssef's klnowledge of the dunes.

The idea was to head into the desert to a deserted nomad camp, witness the sunset, sleep there and wake up before sunrise (5am) getting back to the Ka

Continued | Viaggi: Europa e Marocco, Estate 2007.

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