Here By Glimpses Known

[wayfaringwordhack]

We've sadly been unable to explore much of the Egyptian desert due to instability in the country and safety restrictions imposed by J's work. On a trip to Fayoum, however, we went to Wadi Al-Hitan (Valley of the Whales), a World Heritage Site, and spent a night camping surrounded by fennec foxes.

Junebug was only 7weeks old at the time, so it was a speedy visit. Camping with a 3-yr old and a newborn in a 2-person tent = interesting, but not worth repeating unless strictly necessary. :P

Whale fossils in Wadi Al-Hitan

The whole area was once a lagoon with an extensive mangrove:

Photo with J to give you an idea of the size of the sandstone formations:

Humpbacks, shooting the breeze. :P

Oh, and what the heck, why not a camping pic and one of a fox:

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Sprout and the fox staring at each other--so magical! The whole scene is completely otherworldly--the stone echoes of a lush, watery past, and now it's all sand. The whale fossil!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

It would have been great to have arrived earlier--we got there too close to sunset--and to have stayed longer so that we could have experienced more of those magical moments. It was warm enough out that we slept without the "shell" over the tent; we had only the netting layer between us and the desert night. Several times we left Sprout light up the surroundings with the flashlight and were rewarded with silvery gazes turned our way. :)