Writing Challenge – To Capitalize or Not

My letter to Tara, about my visit to the Sahara

Dear Tara,

I am so glad you had an enjoyable trip to New York City. I can imagine how it was wonderful with your kids. I’m going to be a mother, and I know how it feels to be happy with your family in any place you put your feet in.

My husband Josef is interested in making Discovery Tours, for the first time he suggested visiting the Sahara last year in March, I thought he was joking, “What! A trip to the desert?!”… He insisted and I hesitated, however, I finally decided, he promised me to have a great time there!

Our travel was to Algeria, and exactly to the Hoggar which is situated in the southward. The way was so long for so many hours, we were with seven European tourists from different countries, and the tourist guide, they were exhausted, but for what? Any ideas?! … Maybe to see camels? Or to face fennecs, or else to dance with snakes on that wide carpet of sands, under the warm sun shining over our little heads!!

You know what Tara? Sahara didn’t use to be a desert. It used to be a green land with large rivers and big lakes which contained a lot of fish. It had vast forests, which were full of dangerous animals. People there used to live in caves. They painted many beautiful pictures of animals and hunters. They wore the skins of the animals which they hunted.

“Guess the origin of the word Sahara!” asked Josef, “I know you will tell me that it comes from the Arabic word Sahra which means desert” he added, and then I replied “Well dear, that’s what we’ve learned at school! But It seems that I’m about to discover another thing”. He agreed and said “Yes you are, the word Sahara probably comes from Sagara which is a Sanskrit word for big sea.”

I took beautiful pictures of the cave frescoes in the Hoggar, and amazing photos of mountains and golden sand dunes in the sunset, I’m looking forward to showing them to you and our friends. I truly realized that the Sahara desert is a land of beauty, history, and adventure.

With my big respect and best wishes of zest

Camelia.

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Comment by Bimal on November 12, 2012 at 14:04: Dear Camelia,

It is an interesting blog! Yes, you are right, Sahara was a vegetation in the past...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990712080500.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahar...

Good Luck!

Bimal

SpamBuster Comment by Rajesh on July 2, 2012 at 16:23: Very nice letter. It was nice knowing about Sahar and it's really nice to know about new places like this.

Comment by Camelia on July 2, 2012 at 9:14: Dear Nadira,

Thank you for reading the letter. I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

Mod Comment by Nadira on June 29, 2012 at 15:29: Dear Camelia

Enjoyable letter especially the details of Sahara . re read it many times :)

Comment by Camelia on June 28, 2012 at 9:45: Welcome Nida! That's a very nice comment of you! Thank you!

SpamBuster Comment by nidα on June 27, 2012 at 20:21: Wow!! What a splendid writing, Camelia!

You wrote the letter so beautifully that I've got no words to tell you how much I enjoyed reading it. I'm speechless.

And thank you so much for sharing photos of Sahara with us.

Comment by Forget-me-Not on June 27, 2012 at 12:33: I love the third one ! Thanks.

Comment by Camelia on June 27, 2012 at 11:43: @Forget-me-not: Thank you too for comment! As I said to Yasemin and Anele, It's a fictional trip.. I just wrote the letter in order to learn. I'm sorry! I don't want you to wait for my own photos. I'll add some pictures of those paintings, they are not mine, but I'll just show them for knowledge :)

Comment by Forget-me-Not on June 27, 2012 at 9:02: Hello Camelia,
What an interesting post you wrote up here. As you I didn't know the meaning of the word Sahara. Thanks for the lesson :)) I can't wait to see your pictures.

Comment by mitran on June 27, 2012 at 4:15: Yes, I will...Tomorrow, I will add it. And I'm sure..hahaha...some my friends will be unconscious when they read my blog.