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a very obvious tourist recommendation but I wasn’t expecting to feel so much awe — I was excited to see them on this trip but I figured with seeing them so much in films and photographs, and with so many people telling me oh it’s so busy and theres loads of scammers and theres so much trash etc etc… I felt a bit desensitised. Those things are sort of true but it doesn’t really have any impact on how incredible they are! If anything, seeing them for the first time in the Uber made it all the more surreal and wonderful. They’re just suddenly there.
I kept thinking about how insane it must have felt to see them before we had all seen a million photos and heard a million stories and then been asked a million times if we want a photo on a camel and my brain just can’t process it — sheer awe and beauty.
Dec 16, 2024
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I visited Egypt last year in March for the first time with my good friend, Rafik, who grew up in Cairo. A group of 5 of us traveled to the small oasis town of Siwa, which was an 8 hour escapade through the desert in a van, down one road where we got stopped at 6 military checkpoints. They look at your passport and inside your bags, and let you keep going. Siwa is the most magical place I’ve ever been to – the story of Aladdin was supposedly written there, the landscape is straight out of National Geographic, and the people are the sweetest, most chaste souls. We spent 4 days there - I didn’t use the internet once, everyday we went on an adventure somewhere in nature, I woke up every morning at 6am and I ate the best food from a garden.
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I had always wanted to see this and also knew it would be tough to convince anyone to drive 2ish hours north of Salt Lake City with me to see a pile of rocks. I was in Wyoming for a wedding a few summers ago and that was my chance for a solo trip. Rented a car and drove in the middle of July in the hot hot desert. I had the place to myself. Highly rec solo trips in general because it removes worrying about if other people are enjoying it. Some people might think this was lame as hell and a dusty bumpy car ride but I cried tears of joy!
Mar 21, 2024
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i visited here for only 4 days in 2022 and i‘ve been thinking about it once a day ever since. it’s a magical desert with a color palette that doesn’t feel real
Nov 4, 2023
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