The bus to Dahab was long and uncomfortable. 16 hours buses tend to be like that anyway, so no surprises there. The Sinai Peninsula is as barren as any desert land. Mountains fill your sight, but the kind of mountains that makes your mouth go dry. Only shrubs grow in the mountains, and only goats eat them. The people who used to be the original inhabitants here are the Bedouins, but since the arriving of the tourist crowds, they are discriminated by the western Egyptians who came to build the big tourists complexes. The Bedouins provide now guide services or camel rides only, but little are they getting out of the huge money the Europeans leave every year here. As soon as we got out of the bus, a bunch of taxi drivers started to hassle
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