We went on a trip into the desert.  This involved 7 of us in 2  4wd’s. We left after lunch one day, spent the night sleeping outside under the starts and came back the next day.  We walked up a few sand dunes.  This is actually quite hard work.

We slept between the cars and in the night is was quite windy so we had the sand blowing over us. 

So by the morning we had sand everywhere.  In our ears nose and hair all sand coloured.

In the night the stars were wonderful..  would have been perfect without the wind !!!

Katrin in the desert                                steve in the desert

                                                              Our Beduin guide sorting out Steve’s head gear..

                                                                                   Steve collecting firewood

                                                              It was great fun sliding down the loose sand..  lovely feeling on the feet..

This is where we slept in our sleeping bags.          Our little gropup..

We had to push the car a couple of times when it got stuck..  We stopped at a ‘garaga’ to blow the tyres up again as they had to be

Let down to drive on the sand dunes.. You can see that the electricity lines stop here..  it is the end of civilization …

We visited the ‘Lost city’.  Not much to see but if there was much, I suppose it would not have been lost!!!

Frankinsense tree..                                             Traffic jam.. nice roads but the cows still need to be brought back.. bit tricky with only a very

Narrow gap between the lanes…. J