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Nature Calling - Cosmos Falling… in?

© Arnvid Aakre

The humming of a strong motor was again singing its reassuring song in the desert night. Front and roof searchlights unveiled continually new tiny parts of the sand landscape. I turned to Ahmed who was driving and said, "Can you stop - nature is calling".

Well I did not say exactly that, as I believe I used the slang here in Egypt which is to "make a telephone". Guess I said "can you stop - have to make a phone". Ahmed stopped the car and the humming engine of the four-wheel car. Then the searchlights. We went out in an endless and silent desert to make our phone calls...

It was there and then...
- and here come the real difficult part.

How am I going to explain to you who now sit in front of your computer reading these Latin letters put together to a English language pattern - what exactly happened?

It was not a desert fox coming bye - that would have been "real". Neither was it Hollywood's Valentino on a white horse breaking the barrier of the silver screen and time - it was something more. In short - the greatest monument I had seen during more than ten years in Egypt.

Let my try an experiment?

Imagine the Grand Pyramids of Giza, the gold mask of TutAnchAmon, the Osiris Temple of Abydos - then you close your eyes and think very strongly "MORE"!

Do you see anything?

If not, let me start all over again?

I wrote: "We went out in a endless desert to make our phone calls...".
Maybe the natural thing would be to start with the desert then?

Yes I do talk about Sahara, as "sahara" is the Arabic word for desert. Where we stood was part of both Sahara and "sahara" (note that Sahara - the worlds largest desert - cover an area about the size of the United States).

We were standing silent in the Egyptian desert - west of the Nile - a part today logically named "The Western Desert" (, previously called the "Libyan Desert"). This Egyptian part of the Sahara alone covers around 680 thousand square kilometres. Two third of the total size of Egypt. As numbers sometimes speak badly, let me mention that Egypt's Western Desert cover an area equal to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Greece - combined.

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