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Siwa Oasis, Egypt

September 16, 2009
Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Hundreds of kilometers through the flattest, most desolate landscape I’ve seen, we rode south from Mersa Matrouh, the last city on the Mediterranean coast. This was the final stage of a nine-hour bus ride from Alexandria to the Siwa Oasis. The remote oasis is a depression that stretches 82 x 28 km and...
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St. Catherine’s Monastery and Mt. Sinai, Egypt

August 21, 2009
St. Catherine’s Monastery and Mt. Sinai, Egypt

We descended down a steep ravine by way of the 3,750 “steps of repentance”, illuminated in a striking orange glow by the morning sun. The steps were so named by one of the monastery’s monks, and walked by those in need of penance...
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