Blogs from Dahab, Sinai, Egypt, Africa - page 7

Hey you people. Sorry I didn't get to stay updated on my travelblog! At 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 fallen in love (and am deeply in love), am working for a radiostation (www.radiosharmlive.com) and am learning how to dive at the moment... all crazy. And difficult! I hope that I shall get to you soonish! x tim... read more

For my 2009 birthday my mother and I went to Egypt. We arrived on the 6th June in Luxor, where we spent 2 days exploring. We then took a flight via Ciro to Sharam El-Shaykh where we took a taxi to Dahab For 4 days Dahab was our base allowing us to go to Mount Sinai, Petra (in Jordan) and snorkeling at the blue hole! Next we went to Cairo with a 9h bus ride and there we went to the Pyramids of Giza, Saqqara and Memphis Hope you enjoy the photo's Werna ... read more

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 days! Once we recovered though we found our lovely little niche of Dahab and enjoyed a "honeymoon" week of sun, surf, snorkelling, delicious egyptian food and generally relaxing and unwinding. the eel garden cafe on the beach 2 minutes from our little oasis hideaway provided us with delectible dishes and our friendly local treat shop kept us in baklava and a multitude of random yumminess. we quickly made friends with the neighbourhood camels, cats and goats, which helped us with missing ... read more

On our return to Cairo we picked up where we had left off with applying for visas. We reached the conclusion that irrespective of our ability to get Russian visas, we would need a Chinese visa if we wanted to see anything of the country other than Hong Kong. Naively we assumed that few Egyptians would be applying for Chinese visas and therefore, getting a visa would be a relatively straightforward task. How wrong we were. From the what we saw, we can conclude that before long a significant proportion of the billion or so people in China will be Egyptian. With Egyptians not being renowned as early risers, we thought that arriving at 7am, an hour and half before the embassy opened, would secure us a decent a position in the queue. Sadly we were ... read more

In the afternoon at 4pm went left the town of Huargada and started the long drove to Mt. Sinai. We were in a small mini bus that lept about two feet in the air every time we went over the smallest of bumps. Sleeping was impossible and so when we arrived at Mt. Sinai at 02:20am, most of us were like zombies. Mt. Sinia is where Moses went to get the ten commandments from God for the villagers. It is the highest mountain in Egypt and stands at 2285m. There are two paths you can take, the camel path with is a gradual ascent and takes two and a half hours and then there is the more punishing route 'the steps of penitence' which has 3750 steps. St. Catherines Monastry lies at the foot of the ... read more