Picnic Lunch...

When we reached the parking lot where we had met the mules, we discovered that Hussein had a picnic lunch waiting for us below some trees.

Lunch typically consisted of veggies, tuna, bread, cheese, orange slices with cinnamon, mint tea and pasta, rice or lentils.

I was a bit hesitant to eat the uncooked veggies until Khaled assured us that everything had been rinsed in an iodine solution. Of course, it was in our guides best interest that none of us got sick and I’m happy to report that none of us did. I talked to a fellow on our return flight who said that 40% of the 39 folks on their bus tour got sick.