Dear Friends, it is now two weeks that I have left London and here is my first little report with some pictures of my travels across Egypt...I just finished my PADI diving license in Dahab (next to the Red Sea) and will leave for Jordan tomorrow morning... The departure After some last minute packing (18kg backpack) and cleaning up the mess in my apartment from a little party, I left in a hurry to catch my flight from Heathrow to Cairo...the plane was delayed by three hours. Arriving at 2.30am in an unknown city without any accommodation is not optimal but I managed to wake up the guard of a hostel that was mentioned in the Lonely Planet (aka the Bible) and spent my first night of the trip in a small dormitory in downtown Cairo!
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