The Western Desert

Thursday morning I joined a group from school for an overnight camping trip in the Western Desert. We saw the Black Desert, did some off-roading and sight-seeing, then made our way to the White Desert where we camped. It was really neat. The silence was incredible.

It was also my first experience of camping without toilet facilities. Sometimes it was hard to find a rock for cover when people were walking around and other groups were camping as well. We had a nice, long morning walk!

Ready to go!

From the top: Me, Alice, Nevine in the Black desert.We went down the hill and it was really fun. I had the front seat passenger take video. These Land Cruisers can go anywhere!

A nice sunset with clean air. I didn't know such things existed in Egypt! The stars that night were fantastic.

We didn't get dinner until 10:30. We were all starving!Our tent. Spooky.

Campsite at dawn.

One of our guides, packing up. I was tired and sitting in the car.The White Desert. The limestone looks like snow.
You can't really see it, but there is all kinds of quartz and other crystals on top of this strangely formed rock. This was at a site called Crystal Mountain.