Blogs from Dahab, Sinai, Egypt, Africa - page 9

Rolled out of Nuweıba next day to get to Dahab and do some dıvıng! Anxıous to get back ın the water.... read more

After breakfast at our hotel, Evy and I decided to go explore the town while Joshua and Benjamin relaxed at the hotel. Rather than follow the paved shoreline path, we walked out the driveway of our hotel and along to the main road. We seem to be one of the final hotels in the strip, so most of the town is in from us. We popped into a few of the stores to get an idea of prices for things like t-shirts. The store people here are not nearly as aggressive as they are in Luxor - the whole place seems to have a more laid back atmosphere. Towards where the main road finally reaches the seaside path, we found a store that was a post office of sorts, and managed to buy some stamps, but ... read more

Les derniers jours se sont passés dans la péninsule du Sinai, une région située a proximité de certains des endroits parmis les plus paysibles sur la planete, notamment Israel, la Bande de Gaza et l'Arabie Saoudite! Un coin ou les gens vivent heureux et en harmonie! Nous avons quitté Le Caire mardi matin en direction de Dahab. La ride de bus s'est relativement bien déroulée malgré la dizaine d'arrets a des "check points" ou personne ne s'intéressait vraiment a nous. Notre passeport n'aura été vérifié qu'a deux reprises. Par contre, d'autre passager, dont le look doit faire sonner un signal d'alarme, ont été questionnés systématiquement lors de chacune des vérifications. La ville de Dahab est une nouvelle destination a la mode depuis quelques années. Moins chere que sa voisine Sharm El Sheik, elle un peu une ... read more

For Thanksgiving we decided to take a hiatus from time-tested American traditions of eating things larger than your head and watching football, and instead scuba dive in the Red Sea. This adventure features Andy, Luke, Chelsea, Sarah, Kira (who, along with Sarah, didn't dive) and myself. We took the midnight bus to Dahab on Wednesday, which meant that we arrived in Dahab at 10:00am Thursday. Dahab is this wonderful town on the Red Sea coast of the Sinai peninsula that is essentially one (car-less) street along the coast with cafes on the ocean side and shops on the inland side. All of the cafes have basically the same food, and all have both tables and Bedouin-style short tables with mats and pillows so that you sit on the floor. There are many outlets offering diving services, ... read more

We started the day in grimy Aquba, bid a sad goodbye to those who were leaving us, and got on a grimy hydrofoil to Nuweiba in Egypt. The local passengers did not seem to be familiar with deoderant and the efforts of the crew to improve the atmosphere by spraying air freshener did little to help. After sitting for nearly two hours waiting for the ship to depart we sailed across the narrow gulf (a one and a half hour journey) to Nuweiba and extracted our baggage. I also got the remaining visa I needed, which seemed to be a lot more shiny than the ones stamped into other people's passports by their embassies. We took a bus down to Dahab, which turned out to be quite nice and laid back. I had my own room ... read more