TKH Fauna and flora of the Sinai. Let’s just say the Bedouin are not big on pets. There are some cats and dogs hanging around the settlements we passed through, but they were of the semi-feral variety it seemed to me. When food was served they would appear out of nowhere with the expectation of …
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On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Pt. 3
TKH More pictures of geology and landscape
On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Part 2
TKH In Part 2 and 3 I will show some pictures of the scenery we walked through. I must confess that I really had no idea what to expect in terms of landscape and terrain before I started to do some background work while I was deciding whether this trip was for me or not. …
On The Road – TKH – Sinai Trail Part 1
TKH Over the course of seven weeks, beginning in late October, to early December of last year (2023) I backpacked the Sinai Trail on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. The hike was organized by sinaitrail.org, a Bedouin-run non-profit that aims to give the Bedouins an income stream from tourism that they themselves control. Apart from …
On The Road – Albatrossity – Westward 2019
Looks like a great week. It’s Albatrossity Monday and then we head to the Sinai Trail! Albatrossity This time of year, there are only a few kinds of birds to photograph here in Flyover Country, and sometimes minimal photons available to photograph them with. So I turn back to the archives to generate my …
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On The Road – arrieve – The Suez Canal, part 2
arrieve Continuing through the Canal.
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On The Road – arrieve – The Suez Canal part 1
arrieve Apologies in advance for the long introduction: I have always wanted to sail through the Suez Canal—maybe I’ve just watched Lawrence of Arabia too many times but if I kept a list of really cool things I wasn’t likely ever to do, transiting the Suez Canal would definitely have been on it. I wanted …
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