Girl Solo in Arabia
By Edouard
Posted on January 27th, 2010 in Lifestyle
Even since I found Caroyln’s McIntyre’s blog “Girl Solo in Arabia”, I have been reading it avidly to the point of neglecting everything else. Just take a deep breath, click and start reading. You’ll emerge from it three hours later, with red eyes, but the journey it takes you on is worth every minute of your time.
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You are right! Her blog has been bookmarked right after yours!
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This is wonderful and could take many joyous hours to review. I only looked for a few moments. I did go right to the photos of Syria and saw, at the beginning, the beautiful courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. It brought back memories which I do not have photos of, only an audio tape. The recording is of a blind man sitting on a small stool in the center of the courtyard singing in a penetrating tenor voice from the Koran. His voice was stunning. Even though the language I did not know, the spirit of it I felt so deeply as to be able to hear it in my head for weeks afterward, like when one hears a great song that they cannot forget for it is so unique in sound.
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I should note that I often used my tape recorder on my travels rather than use my camera. I tried to fill my minds eye with everything that I could see to remember visually and then record the sounds of whatever else I would need time to understand later. This of course was especially useful in interviews with the tribes.