Blogs from Dahab, Sinai, Egypt, Africa - page 10

I've only just realised how long it's been since I've updated, I haven't covered Alexandria or the desert safari, let only Dahab and the Red Sea! So, I am going to make this update probably in dribs and drabs or it will all take far too long a post. First - the really bad news. My camera is broken, in a serious way :( It got dropped in Luxor, then taken away for fixing in Cairo for over 3 weeks before it was returned to us with a "sorry we can't fix it". I emailed Kodak UK and they said, basically, "It'll cost 90 quid to fix it or you can buy a new camera." We are still checking out our options but it means we are very much lacking the fantastic pictures we should have ... read more

All calamities happen in threes.. Day 17 - I think I may be in Egypt!! Our itinerary said that today would be dedicated to solely getting across the Border from Jordan to Egypt - And it wasn't an exaggeration.... We were originally given an 11am departure time to catch the ferry across the red sea to Egypt. This soon changed to 1pm as we sat at the Jordanian Border waiting to cross. We stood waiting at Border control as our Jordanian agent handled the necessary paperwork to process our visas. Standing around watching the scene unfolding before me was like watching scenes from a commodities trading floor just before closing time - all awash with yelling men, standing with arms raised holding various bits of papers, passports and forms whilst huddled in front of a ... read more

After our first sleep in and another non-breakfast box breakfast we spent today relaxing and snorkeling in the Red Sea - just beautiful!. Dinner was at a place called the “Funny Mummy” which is filled with lots of cats - so many cats we were given water pistols to chase them away! No sleep for us tonight as we leave at 11.30pm to travel to Mt Sinai which is a 2 hour drive west of Dahab and then about a 2 ½ to 3 hour climb to the peak to watch the sunrise tomorrow morning followed with yet another breakfast box waiting for us at the bottom! We managed to get sleep on the bus before we got to Mt Sinai - the proposed site of the 10 commandments. After meeting our Bedouin guide who was ... read more

OK so we are now in Duhab Egypt on the Red Sea coast of the Sinai desert. We got a nice hotel and this place is really a nice place to kick back but we only have two days. Yesterday on the ferry our brand new camera quit so hopefully we can figure that out. More later.... read more

Hola amigos, I know it's been a while since I rapped at ya... (probably only Matthew gets that joke) Seriously though, I know I haven't updated in a while, but we've been pretty busy sightseeing in Egypt and fast internet connections are not exactly easy to find around here. The one I'm currently on isn't terribly fast, so we'll see how many pictures I get uploaded. Ok, well I just uploaded a few photos and it took forever so now I'm tired of being at the computer. I'll give a quick rundown of our travels now and then flesh things out later. Last of Greece We spent one more week in Greece, on the island of Crete. We checked out some museums and ancient sites, went to a water park (which was awesome fun!) and spent ... read more