You might think that spending a sleepless night freezing
cold on the top of a mountain would be enough excitement for your first day in
a new country, but turns out my family does not agree.
After returning to our hotel in Dahab, we had a couple hours
of sleep and then we were back at it: four-wheeling through the desert to a
Bedouin camp for a traditional native Egyptian chicken dinner (in the place of turkey)
under the stars.
We got all wrapped up with scarves and headed out on our
ATVs for an awesome ride through the desert – our leaders were pretty adamant
about staying in a straight line (we were reprimanded a few times for straying
from this rule) but rewarded us by going SUPER fast :)
Our ride was about an hour, after which we ended up at an awesome
Bedouin camp – which are the native people of Egypt – where we sat around the
campfire and enjoyed some sheesha and cocktails (smuggled in ourselves since
the Bedouins do not drink).
Since we were having dinner on Egypt time, where ‘dinner at
7pm’really turns into 9pm, we sang some Christmas carols for our guides and
they sang us some traditional Egyptian songs accompanied by a drum. It was
amazing to see the energy that they get from the drum while they sing.
Our guides made the most amazing dinner ever – fresh babaganoush
(they roasted the eggplant themselves), rice with some sort of noodle cooked
into the mix (turns out they do this everywhere – I’m not sure what type of noodle
it is, it tastes like an egg noodle, but it is the tastiest thing EVER), salad,
and chicken cooked to perfection with amazing spices. So yummy.
We chilled out under the stars for a bit, and then packed up
and four-wheeled back to our hotel. All-in-all, a wonderful evening, with the
deepest sleep of my life that night.
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