my experience in egypt

....jsut got back and it was amazing. i love the egyptian hospitality, i had so much tea last week.

i spent the most wonderful night with the bedouin people on a camel ride and a meal with some fantastic bedouin tea ( habuk) which made me extreamly giggly,one of the young men made a whole pot of it jsut for me while i did his portrait in the candle light.

i climbed mount sinai which took almost forever which was an amazing spiritual experience.
although its a place of pilgrimage for many religions i never went there for that purpose, i jsut wanted to paint on top of the mountain becasue it was one of my dreams! i made friends with a wonderful muslim girl called fatma. we shared alot about our lives etc and lessons we have learnt with our faith-and it was great to journey with her-we even prayed together when we reached the top and declared that we would both live big lives and not be discouraged by people.

i was very sad to go, on my last day i saw the bedouin again and hadf a fun fun day getting as many people to sing my song (some of the locals sang a song with my name in it)

was great al the shop keepers came out with drums and tambourines and we all sang in the streets!


i have such good memories of there!

i will show pictures soon i hope

 

hi arlia
i think u had spend good time here in egypt , i'm from egypt
u mention that u paint i guess u like that can u show us one of ur paint

any way i hope u had vistied all the nice paces here in egypt ,hope u 'll come again

 

where abouts in egypt you from.
i was staying in sharm el sheikh, but ventured to the mountains often and went through dahab

 

wow i have always wanted to go to Egypt - you just made it seem so wonderful, I hope i get the chance to go their to *hopes*



um did you actually now people there before you went???

P.S i am glad you achieved one of your dreams *well done*

 

it all sounds so nice =)
meeting fatma and everything you shared with her sounds so great =) praying together on that mountaintop, wowowowowow - MEMORIESSSSSS!! hahaha
and bedou tea! mmmmmmm~~
i love your posts, i love you =)
i can't wait to see the pictures!
peacepeacePeace

 

i didnt know anyone before i went but i amde friends within a day of being there!
hahahah!
ahhhh bedouin tea is marvelous.
it was such an amazing experience, i think when im old i will always remember mine and fatmas journey together

 

yeahh you will =)

good folks just meet you everywhere when you've got your light on
even in strangeee new lands!
=)

 

i live in cairo it's far away from sharm el sheikh but i was in sharm once

did u visted cairo or not?

 

nah never went to cairo.
will do next time though i tihnk alot of my friends from sharm where from cairo, plus i ahve a frineds who lives there!
fatma

 

to bad u never been in cairo there is good places to go here, but anyway i hope u visite cairo next time
nice to hv friends here next time when u come u'll see them

 

yes the east can be very interesting. i remember wandering the wilderness of paran. keep meaning to go to egypt.

 

Sounds like you had a great trip! Post some photos soon, i bet they'll be awesome!

 

yeah it shall be cool!
would like to spend more time in dahab aswell, it looked interesting but i only passed through

 

I hope to meet you some day in Egypt

 

ah thanks,. most cool

 

what have you been up to since coming home?

 

missing egypt, but my boyfriend took me to this great lebanese place for food

reminded me of egypt

iv been painting alot too

 

How long were you there for in total? You planning on going travelling again?

 

So.....are you a missionary?

 

no but iv always wanted to be, my grandparents were.
they worked in uganda for 15 years