This travel writing piece participated in the 2018 Travel Writing Competition which was done in collaboration with Travel Garage, Egypt‘s must-go to online store for purchasing adventure and travel goodies. I have travelled north, south, east and west but never in my life have I ever felt the same way I did the minute I stepped off the bus after the tiring, over-night, ten-hour drive to that remote, rarely heard of town 600 kilo meters south of Cairo overlooking the Red Sea. A feeling of peace of the soul, serenity of the heart quietness of the mind, accompanied by a pure sense of safety to a stranger in a small town instantly submerged me. The humans of this small yet warm town generally choose to act on their humanness. They reside away from the vandalism of capitalists, the materialism of the twenty first century and into the realms of intact humanity. They quickly spot your strangeness to the town but choose to treat you as one of their own. For a city girl with a heart seeking authenticity, seeing such quality of uncontaminated humanity still persisting creates a bond between my soul…
