We might have gone a little overboard with the pictures… my previous post only included the ones we took before lunch! I probably posted too many, but I couldn’t narrow it down anymore!
After hiking in the rain for most of the morning, we stopped for lunch on top of a dune just as the sun started to come out. We had been hiking for about 5 hours so we were starving and exhausted. Our guide gave us the strangest sandwiches, Moroccan bread filled with sliced tomatoes, peppers, red onions, and olives. It was more like bread stuffed with salad… We devoured them in minutes and then proceeded to devour three pomegranates. Sitting there on the sand after walking for 5 hours, pulling apart the pomegranate with the juice running down my hands, I felt like I had regressed to a more primitive or animalistic state. It was such a strange feeling. I also felt like we’d been hiking for 5 days rather than 5 hours!
After our lunch break we kept walking. Every so often we would ask Abraham what direction we were going, how many more kilometres, how many more hours. He always gave us vague answers that didn’t really make sense, it was both frustrating and amusing. I think the reason was that as a nomad, his definition of time and space was different then ours. He didn’t measure the desert in hours or kilometres. He measured it by the portion of the day that it took to get from one landmark to another.
Whenever we asked him these questions, he would point to a tall dune FAR off on the horizon and tell us we were going BEHIND there, everytime he did this I had a mini-breakdown in my head. But in then end it was fun. Making it around the giant “Sahara Lake” was a fun adventure and felt like a huge accomplishment. A lot of people were stuck in the desert because cars couldn’t go through/around the lake, but we had made it past the barrier with our own feet. The first day we walked about 30 kilometres, by far the longest I’ve ever walked. The landscapes were incredible and the exhaustion was worth it, but next time… 5 kilometres will be perfect for me!
Victoria 
Still looking good… 30km in
That’s a visual allusion!