Sunday, May 18, 2014

Desert Sands of the St. Katherine Protectorate

Orange
            Blue 
                    Purple
Red
         Pink
                  Yellow

As the sun does rise
the bitter cold does scurry away
driven out by rays of the warmth of day

Dirt 
       Sand
               Rocks
Steps
         Trails
                   Stones

Footfalls create a beat with your breath
step after step you descend
leaving naught but a trail of dust.

Mountains
               Camels
                           Cats
Crosses
            Shops
                       Goats

Mountains appear at your back
Stone walls of a monastery grow 
Civilization reappears cloaked in a halo. 

Having watched the sunrise from atop Mount Sinai and hiked down the steps of penitence we finally arrived at St Catherine's monastery in the heart of the St. Katherine Protectorate. Looking up on where we had just been we were surrounded by sandy desert mountains, the only faces appearing from them, inside the rocks themselves. 

To read about out entire journey click here, and until then enjoy my photographic journal of the St. Katherine Protectorate.
















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