05/11/08 - Back in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Hello again people. Just a quick update while i'm stopping off in Cairo again after leaving Dahab and before heading down to Southern, or Upper Egypt ('upper' due to the direction the nile flows). So Dahab was fun. I managed some snorkelling, but diving courses proved too expensive unfortunately! Still, the underwater life in the shallows is still spectacular!! An assortment of all kinds of tropical fish, corals, eels, crustaceons, and other creatures of the sea, swimming all around you. AAnother world down there and definately an incentive to come back for a diving course in the future! Also finally did some quad biking, through the desert and surrounding Saini mountains which i eventually became quite comfortable with, rinsing around at speed and tackling the terrain and corners pretty
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