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Originally Posted by mark manley
I read that and was reminded of the unwanted visitor I found under my Thermarest while camped outside Wadi Halfa which is not far from Aswan, it was the last time I camped without putting my tent up.
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Same here, except over in West Africa. I was wild camping in Senegal on a warm night and thought it was hardly worth the effort putting the tent up. I was half asleep when something large and black crawled over me.
Years earlier I'd been backpacking through Senegal on a bus when it broke down (again) after dark. While the driver was negotiating with the local village (he needed water from their well) the passengers started looking for peanuts in a nearby field. Thinking that these were under the surface I started raking my fingers through the soil, only for one of the other passengers to come over, grab my hand and slap my wrist. 'Don't put your hand in the dirt, that's where the scorpions are' he told me. A lesson I've not forgotten.
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