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Hello! After lots of requests and many weeks my latest travel blog is now up! I’ve decided to jump around and go ahead and publish the Middle East ones prior to the Christmas break one (the photos are done but not the writing, I’m working on it, things have been busy!).

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Lisa Damico
2007-04-21 22:25:29

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while we waited for the rest of the group to arrive. Opposed to the path we had taken up for the majority of the hike, the last part of the journey was up a couple hundred stairs created by haphazardly placed boulders. The view from the top definitely made it worth all the climbing and sweating. Never have I felt so "on top of the world" - mountains as far as the eye can see, no vegetation just sand-colored mountains everyone. We spread out the bread, cheese and fruit we had purchased earlier that morning and invited some other mountain-climbers who stumbled up the mountain to wait for the sunset to join us - I think something about sharing a strenuous experience makes you feel a certain connection with people you wouldn't have anything to do with under ordinary circumstances. Our snack companions were a couple and two of their friends; the wife spoke to us first in Spanish so Jesús and I responded accordingly and it turned out her husband was from the German speaking part of Switzerland, so Nicole who had studied German began speaking to him which brought the German friends they were, who also spoke fluent French, into the conversation which enabled all of my friends to participate. Even though there wasn't one common language through this crazy mix we all managed to communicate just fine. They asked us where we had already been and where we were going, to which we replied, Luxor and Cairo, then onto Jordan and Israel. As luck would have it, the German guy, Bastian, was studying Hebrew for a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and not only did he offer to show us around the city, he explained that he was living in the dorms at the University and three of the five rooms in his suite were empty so we were welcome to stay with him during our Jerusalem tour.

We exchanged contact information, wished everyone the best and made our way back down to the camel path before
all the sunlight disappeared. On the way down we decided we better take a bathroom ...