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27 March, Sunday White Desert

3/29/2011

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From the Black Desert to the White Desert. We leave the Bedouin Oasis Camp and in the next 50 km we witness a remarkable transformation in the desert. Somewhere she has decided to put on another face – this time a white face! The black lava stained stones and rocks are replaced by pure white limestone rock formations to create a marble white rock garden of mushrooms, statues, profiles, silhouettes arranged as far as the eye can see.

We enjoy a tuna salad in the company of these white stone-faced onlookers…Andrej shifts in behind the wheel of the 4x4 and drives to the exit of the Park.

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We find a camping spot in a Bedouin camp where we are invited to a Bedouin Festival after dinner. We sit, Bedouin style on carpets, around a fireplace and are served sweet, black tea while several Bedouin men entertain us with traditional music and singing. All 4 of us are dead tired and we only last for ½ hour when we crawl into our tents.

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Jan Forman
3/30/2011 01:10:29 am

Dear ALL,
SO GLAD TO HAVE NEW UPDATES AND TO KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE MOVE AGAIN. You have seen some amazing changes of scenery. Praying for good news about your visas. We are all well, excited to have a family reunion with our children this coming weekend.
Take Care, Love from Alec and Jan

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daisyrey link
10/19/2013 02:38:59 pm

Thanks for posting this

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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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