Ferry Hell

I had read that the ferry trip to Egypt is a gong show and it was all true. We set out at 8am from the dessert and got to the ferry terminal at 9:30 for what we though was 11or12 ferry. Interesting process to get stamped out of Jordan and ticketed for the ferry but not too bad, helped some other tourists with the process while we waited but mostly egyptian migrant workers and some families as passengers, nice waiting area- not (pic later). At noon we were told one more hour, the gangs of egyptians rushed the gate several times we joined the first time but learned fast not to bother again. When the time to go did finally arrive at 2:30 we just walked by the line with our privileged tourist status. Ferry sat for another 2 hours, one hour sail to egypt then 1.5 hours sitting again then fight our way off and out. Iced the cake with more hassles in Egypt with taxi, got to our hotel in Dahab at 11pm. On the bright side we made some friends to share the misery with!

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