http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Egypt , Sinai en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:15:56 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:15:56 +0000 Fan photos welcome From your Sinai trekking tripIf you've ever done any trekking in the Sinai we would welcome your photos to show everyone the beauty of this part of Egypt.With more than 10 typical routes and tons more treks to build to cater for your own needs you'll be welcomed.See you around.ThanksFellow TravellerSinai Tour Fans welcome http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-460092.html My journey begins rather inauspiciously firstly with an hour delay to the flight and then the stubbornly stiff top button of my new trousers decides to pop off. Arriving in Sharm elSheikh I am quickly mobbed by a bunch of taxi drivers hustling the airport crowd and despite haggling to 13 of the original price am undoubtedly ripped off. My young driver does his best however to give me value http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-455800.html Hi AllWersquove just returned from an awesome trip around Egypt. Chilled is the wordThis place really blew our minds. People were so friendly and easy going. The scenery was beautiful as well. Check out some of our photos as this will give you a better idea of what Irsquom talking about.We landed in Sharm el sheikh and travel up to Dahab on the first night. Dahab is really cool with loads of http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-450998.html Because Mount Sinai is a very common tourist attraction it is best to hike up the mountain during the night and sleep up there until sunrise. We began our hike up the mountain at 930 at night. The hike was not that bad especially when Monica a fellow traveler got a camel and took my 8 pound pack off of me. The hike in total was 7km most of which was switch backs. The only really challengi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-449714.html Day 11 A Day to rememberWe were on the truck and away from Herghada by 6am. This turned out to be an exhausting day of almost 13 hours of driving to St Catherinersquos Monastery at the foot of Mt Sinai. Arriving at the car park around 8pm the designated cook group prepared a dinner and at 9.30pm we started the trek to the top of Mt Sinai arriving at 12.30am. I was not happy with the guide. He http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-445269.html Lying on my back with my head in the stars and I'm gone. In my right ear I can hear the gentle asthmatic rasping of the rhythmically breathing sea whilst in my left I have the vast silence of the Sinai desert. Below me is coarse golden sand and above man above the stars explode across the deathly black palette of the sky like an particularly reserved measured and ordered Jackson Pollock spla http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-441668.html Tonight is my last night in Dahab and one of my last in Egypt so I am marking the occasion with banana pancakes on the beach they are the local breakfast specialty but I have been getting up so dang early I have never made it to breakfast. I have gone lsquolocalrsquo too dining in flip flops swimsuit and coverup. It is probably a good thing I am leaving tomorrow or next thing you kno http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-441288.html Hi EveryoneThe atmosphere in Egypt is quite different from anywhere I have ever been. I wonder if Egyptians would find cornfields as exotic as I find camels. Walking down the street is an adventure. I am glad that I came with a tour group because traveling in Egypt is very difficult without private transportation. Not to mention that everyone sees a tourist as a giant money bag waiting to be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-441269.html Greetings from Dahab beach colony on the Red Sea but technically located in the Sinai.Frankly I still can't believe that I made it. The Sinai isn't the easiest place to access especially from Luxor and especially if you are not aiming for SharmelSheikh or are not going as part of a package tour. Therefore my only real option was gasp public transportation. Being no stranger to long long http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-441088.html After an early start where we tried to sleep in as Long as possible before making a mad dash for breakfast and somehow getting your belongings organized we were shoved into the bus and driven from Africa to Asia under the suez canal through alot of desert and through some beautiful mountains to the coastal town of Dahab located an hour or so south of the border to Israel and the crossing to J http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-437034.html On Thursday we arrived in Luxor and we are stayed at a great hotel this really has the standard of a 5 star and a lovely pool and we were very happy. Luxor is a nice town with 2 big temples in the centre and a lot of tourists. It is amazing to see all these people visiting the sights and all of them including us hot and sweaty but it is worth it. The afternoon we spent in the swimming pool and i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-435713.html The ferry from Aqaba to Nuweiba in Egyptrsquos Sinai peninsula is supposed to take an hour. On top of this you need to allow considerable time to work out where to actually go. You have to get a taxi out to the ferry terminal then go into a rundown building that from the outside looks pretty deserted to buy your ticket then go downstairs to a room thatrsquos again from the outside look http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-435592.html short sinai trip http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-433898.html Hey you people.Sorry I didn't get to stay updated on my travelblogAt the moment I am in Dahab Sinai Egypt. I shall tell all of you more of my travels through india mumbai udaipur jaipur agra khajurao orcha jhansi varanasi delhi jaisalmer horrortrip to goa goa nepal goa delhi dalai lama city and my adventure to egypt sharm el sheikh dahab soon I am caught up in life ... Have http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-433573.html One of the excursions which is offered is a trip at sunset into the desert by camel.What happens is that a tour opperator will find enough interested parties to book a number of camels for the excursion.The party will be ferried to a departure point about 30 minutes away from an oasis where all are allocated a friendly camel to ride into the desert.Each camel is linked to another and you plod int http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-420578.html If you think scuba diving is great then snorkeling in Dahab will blow your mind.The marine life is teaming from the surface down over the coral gardens right outside the hotel.The coral reef drops steeply and the vis is excellent.We snorkeled for hours without and problem and loved every second of it.No wet suits no BCD no tanks no decompression just warm waters and jump in all day if you lik http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-418844.html Just updating my travel blog thought I would show you the conditions I have to put up with to get this to you http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-417724.html Quick update We are currently in Dahab Egypt which is on the Red Sea coast. We are having an awesome time here. We have hiked up Mt. Sinai at midnight rode horses by the sea and went snorkeling. Tomorrow morning we are going to Cairo about 6 hours away and then we will finally be coming home this Sunday July 5 We plan to update this with more details about our trip when we return http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-414177.html It took asking 24 people but eventually we got directed to the wrong ferryhellip With the fast ferry booked out Abby my new travel buddy and I thought we struck gold Then we were told to change to the slow shitty boat. This is Egyptrsquos introduction from Jordan and the adventures of Sinai.The ferry was one of those old European boats that cover a one hour trip in an overnight journey. At http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/blog-413056.html jet lag pffft... jet lag laughs in the face of tarn and steve Ok so a bit more sleep in Hong Kong might have helped. 40 degree heat 5 flights and little sleep over the past 60 hours and it finally catches up with us basically losing our brains and acting like zombies for two daysOnce we recovered though we found our lovely little niche of Dahab and enjoyed a honeymoon week of sun surf http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Sinai/Dahab/blog-411639.html