I left off as our journey into the Sahara began. Half an hour into the desert our 4x4 broke down. It took about 20 minutes to fix, do to the magical appearance of two dirt bike riders who helped us out. We travelled through Dra'a towards the Algerian border. The desert is large and sweeping, but not all of it is like the orange sand dunes you see on tv. A lot of it is flat dry land with small shrubs and scattered volcanic rocks. Though I asked everywhere, no one could tell me where the rocks came from. There is also evidence of life- tracksin the ground from birds, snakes, lizards, the remains of goat bones and food waste frol human camps; camel droppings. Anyways, an hour of driving later brought us the what could
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