White desert (Amy)

I have no idea why I got the idea of desert camping in my mind, but I heard about it somewhere and it was the one thing I wanted to do in Egypt.  We just spent three days in the White desert - it is an 80 million year old desert and actually considered part of the Libyan desert of the Sahara- details, details.  I had never seen anything like it and yet it reminded me of Lake Michigan in many ways.  The wind makes patterns on the sand which are the same as the water does on the bottom of the Lake.   I saw my very first moonset -   I have oodles of memories of the sun setting into Lake Michigan,but I had never seen the moon set.  Once the moon set we saw more stars than any of us had ever seen in our lives.   

There were six families on our trip.   Each family had their own Toyota 4 x 4 thing and a Bedouin driver who also set up camp and cooked delicious meals.    The white rocks looked like snow drifts and many of the formations looked like meringue.     To make another connection to the Lake,  the cocktail hours were incredibly impressive considering our location.

The ripples on the sand.

Meringue

Cocktail hour

Lunch at magic spring

White caps

Family photo