Thar Desert

14 Dec 2009
First experience out in the desert was just great- "endless" (so it looks from the dunes) openness, dryness, lifelessness extends out until it hits a few short mountains and then the sky, where the sun flames a bright pink, neon-ing the small, scattered clouds surrounded it shades of red and orange and pink and eventually disappearing quickly into grey darkness but leving remanents of its vivid illumination to linger in the sky more slowly and the reddish atmosphere gradually turns to dark blue and dark night. The best part about staying out in the nothingness and sand- away from roads, lights and the rest of the world- stars eveywhere, everywhere. So many that when you lay, glued to the earth, looking up (or down with some subconsicous reasoning), you can't even see the whole of it, and you have to turn your head left and right and all around to tkae in the blanket of black and jewels, hundreds and thousands of them, until time stops for a split second when you catch glimpse of the magical shooting star- and how abundant they are out here! every few minutes- and though exhausted, I stay up to revel at the night and its wonderouos ways. I wake up every couple hours and resist falling back to sleep...