Next we drove to the Red Sea and bid adieu to our Egyptian tour host, Tommy, and Egyptian guide, Yassir, who were afraid they would drown when we walked across the sea on dry ground. As it turned out, we had to use a boat, so they could have made it, but we had another guide waiting for us on the Jordanian shore. Moses and the Israelites walked across the Red Sea and when Pharaoh’s army tried to follow, they did drown. It’s not known exactly where the children of Israel crossed the sea, but it was definitely not on a diesel-powered ferry boat like ours. We landed at Aqaba at the southern tip of Jordan where three countries come together (Egypt, Israel and Jordan) at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba a part
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