I woke up at 5:08 am. Of course I would need to pee at 5:08 am. My brother had asked me to wake him if I needed to go to the bathroom, so I woke him up, we put our shoes on and stepped out of our Amazigh tent.
I gasped. It was a full moon. It was yellow-orange and it was setting. We walked to the outhouse and then just stood outside our tent, watching the yellow-orange moon set over the sand dunes. It was absolutely amazing. As it dipped behind the dunes, we were in darkness. I looked up and the stars were amazing. However, it wasn't long before the first peak of light from the sun rising could be seen behind us.
We decided to head back to bed and wake up 30 minutes later to catch the sunrise.
Ah, what a day in the desert.
My brother and I arrived in the desert on Monday afternoon. We enjoyed some tea in the big Amazigh ten and then headed off on a 1.5 hour dromedary ride. They had told us it would be three hours. Let's just say, we were really pleased that it was half that time. Riding a dromedary was not comfortable and I did begin to feel just a little bit queasy by the end.
We got back to our campsite just in time to head over to the dunes and enjoy the sunset. And what a sunset it was. We soon found ourselves chasing the sun over the dunes until finally we simply rested on the top of one and enjoyed watching the sun drop below the horizon.
We enjoyed a typical cous cous dinner and oranges for dessert and then headed to bed around 10:30.
It was a short excursion, but what a day!!
I'll post pictures once we download them to our computers :D
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