Night out with friends...

We got together with some friends last night and visited a Sufi Muslim gathering where the whirling dervishes...whirl, I guess! It was fascinating- to see the dancers spin and spin and spin for 20+ minutes in the same tight circles. We were gathered around them in a big circle, devout men in the inner ring, women a little further out. And they rocked, bowed, swung their arms, chanting songs in time with huge drums. This went on for about 3 hours. We took pictures, as this is a known "tourist" site, with about a handful of other foreigners in the crowd. As the sun set we sat down and drank tea with some of the locals watching the light fade across the desert landscape... Pictures are of the ceremony and a few by our house...