Nomadic Frames
Mini-mountain Sand Dune
June 24, 2009
Bedouin camp, Sahara Desert, Morocco
I didn't know there were sand dunes that would take over an hour to climb. I found this to be true when we set out at 4 a.m. to climb a mini-mountain of sand to watch the sun rise over the Sahara Desert. We were in Morocco, just 20 miles west of the Algerian border. We slept the night under the stars, in a Bedouin camp about a two-hour camel ride from the town of Merzouga. It has been a dream of mine since I was a child to ride a camel in the Sahara, and all the effort it took to get here was worth it.
This ran in the New York Times Travel Section of the Sunday paper:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/06/travel/20100509-WHYW...
Mini-mountain Sand Dune
June 24, 2009
Bedouin camp, Sahara Desert, Morocco
I didn't know there were sand dunes that would take over an hour to climb. I found this to be true when we set out at 4 a.m. to climb a mini-mountain of sand to watch the sun rise over the Sahara Desert. We were in Morocco, just 20 miles west of the Algerian border. We slept the night under the stars, in a Bedouin camp about a two-hour camel ride from the town of Merzouga. It has been a dream of mine since I was a child to ride a camel in the Sahara, and all the effort it took to get here was worth it.
This ran in the New York Times Travel Section of the Sunday paper:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/06/travel/20100509-WHYW...