OK 9.5 hours with 70 people on a 55 seater bus through the desert without air-conditioning, with one vomit prone very bus sick nine year old isn’t the greatest, but what do you expect for $8 AU. Yet I arrived in the Sinai protectorate of St Katherina around 8:00pm and headed for the 'Fox of the Desert' (yes that’s right Chock) Bedouin camp, where I shared a room with Jose' a Peruvian I met on the journey up. So after negotiating a deal for accommodation and dinner for two, for the grand sum of $1.20 Au per head, we stowed our gear and tucked into some traditional Bedouin food. After a short walk which encompassed the entire St Katerina town, sleep was the prelude to out 2:15 am alarm, I was heading up all 2,285
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