Just before we started this trip, one of the things we said we wouldn't do was to travel on night buses in the developing world. Experience tells us from our time in India and Nepal that it is often bl**dy awful - cold, uncomfortable buses and dodgy driving. Anyway, funny that we now find ourselves in Dahab utterly exhausted and out of sorts after a 17.5 hour bus journey from Luxor. Predictably, it was cold, uncomfortable, the bus was dirty, and there weren't enough toilet stops. Fortunately, the driving was actually ok. Anyway, we won't do it again.... We are now comfortably put up in a seafront room in Jasmine's Place, Dahab, looking out over to the Arabian coast! Dahab is meant to be a bit of a Koh Samui wannabee but it comes across as
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