Blogs from Dahab, Sinai, Egypt, Africa - page 11

There must be something in the water in Dahab. Something that makes your tongue tingle and dance, that makes your mouth curl into a constant smile, something that makes you want to forget everything else in the world and just coolly high-five every living creature within a 5-meter radius. It's funny though, I can't say that it was so much of a spectacular place descriptively; I've been to nicer beaches, dove better sites, seen better sunsets - and there are no real attractions. But perhaps if you were to look up "ambience" in Websters, it would be defined in one word: Dahab. Dahab reminds me of Kuta in Bali. Predominantly backpacker clientele, banana pancakes, totally chilled out on the waterfront. It's also one of those places where locals pull like mad with the foreign girls with ... read more

Open Water Dive Course, Dahab EasyJet - London Gatwick to Sharm El Sheikh. 13:55 - 21:10. £209.46 Accommodation 7 nights and dive course - Penguin Divers - £389.54 Arrived in Sharm el Sheik on Tuesday 13th 9.15pm, after waiting for quite a while for our luggage to turn up we found our driver with a cute little 'Emily' sign and headed off to Dahab. Another English guy, Dom was also staying at Penguin Divers and came in the taxi with us. The landscape is amazing, so dry and barren with huge sandy mountains on all sides. Then you get to Dahab and it is this amazing little town all built around the water front with mountains of big pillows, rugs and palm trees swaying in the wind. Everyone is relaxed and super friendly, sitting around reading, ... read more

I thought I reuploaded the pictures and when I'm logged in it shows them but when I view the blog as you guys would they're not quite all there....will try again with better internet...... read more

April 22, 2008 Ok so I don’t have internet access and I’m a bit tipsy so I don’t exactly remember where I left off… Anyways, we are now in Luxor. We took a train for about 3 hours from Aswan to Luxor and once again the first thing we did when we arrived was drop our bags at our hostel and enjoy the air conditioning. It is HOT here!! Today it was 106 degrees and it’s supposed to be more of the same tomorrow. Apparently we’d been luckily the past few days and what we thought was hot, really wasn’t. After checking in we headed out. Kim and I went to Luxor Temple to see the ruins and Kathleen went to Mc Donalds (where they have complimentary WiFi AND air conditioning) to work on a paper ... read more

Ahh, Dahab, oasis of chill and happiness and western food. Two nights in Dahab did a lot to ease our travel weary souls. We stayed in a backpackers place right by the beach, and basically spent a day and a half relaxing, tourist shopping and remembering what hot showers and real beds felt like. I did a bit of tourist shopping, just because my backpack isn't full enough already, and visited Omar the sheesha master. He's very passionate about the art of sheesha, and when buying one you have to go through the full demonstration of how to assemble it properly, use it correctly and keep it clean... It took an hour to buy a sheesha for Dave, as in addition to the full demonstration, we even had to smoke from it to make sure it ... read more