Bedouin captain and Bedouin wedding

Me, Lotta and a bedouin friend of hers, Said, went to order some new chairs for her in a place close to the pyramids and afterwards we took the chance to also go visit the "captain" (that's only my name for him) that Said knew. It turned out to became a night of beer and whiskey drinking around a camp fire. Pretty nice actually, even if it is impossible to understand anything of what these guys are saying to each other when they get going with their bedouin dialect.

Later I was invited by Said to go with him and watch a bedouin wedding in Fayyuum, an oasis about two hours from Cairo. I went with him and two of his relatives there. (Of course, in the wedding I was also his distant relative :) The way there was an adventure in itself, no lights on the highway so people just flash a little to let others know they are coming when they want to pass. Then there are the crazy minivans that pass the other cars and trucks three at a time, all three lined up beside each other and completely blocking the road should someone come from the opposite direction. And of course the police control where I had to wrap my head in a bedouin scarf so they wouldn't wonder what the heck a white foreigner like me was doing out there... :-)


The 11 year old kid who took the rest of the pictures. If they are a bit fuzzy it's probably due to the beer his dad the captain gave him.


Said (Lotta's friend), the captain of the bedouins and Lotta herself.


Lotta cuddling with the Bedouin Captain's turtles that were crawling around next to us while we were drinking beer. :-)


The one bad shot I got (it was way too dark for my shitty green Brica camera) of the bedouin wedding. After this one, when there was this guy who stared firing off round of a rifle into the desert night, and all of them were high as houses I thought it unwise to take more pictures. ;) It was pretty funny, I was the only one from outside the village I think and whereever I looked there were 10 curious faces staring back at me. One of them even asked Said how come I was so pale. And he told them I was American, eeeevil.. Hehehe. :)