Sinai Diaries #1
"Early morning. From the open door of the bamboo hut where I am writing, the majestic Sinai mountains are in full rose blush, blending with the milky blue sky."
A corner of the deep blue sea twinkles in the sunlight… silhouettes of Bedouins going about their day move like dancing shadows… the camp is waking up… Welcome to Sinai, Egypt.
I came for a 4 day vacation, to time out from the bustling Tel Aviv life. I arrived on the full moon, the day of the eclipse by the earth… I watched the moon rise from the Akaba mountains, expanding like an orange balloon, becoming silver as it inched its way towards its cosmic meeting with the earth. The magic show lasted for hours. That night, I got enchanted… It was my own cosmic meeting with my destiny… the journey to Shanti, an inner place of peace so deep that even a Tsunami cannot make a ripple, had started. . . [continue]