Day 8 was a pretty slow day. We woke up late, got picked up by our drivers (apparently any long drives the government requires 2 of them), and travelled to St. Katherine, about 6 hours away, in the middle of the Sinai peninsula. The most interesting part of the day was when we were leaving Cairo and we saw hundreds of police lining the road we were on. The driver said that President Mubarak lived in the area and was probably heading to the airport, again the Egyptian style of protection seems to me an obvious tip off of what's going on. Along the way we passed through a pile of checkpoints, and under the Suez canal. We arrived to the Wady Mouqdess hotel in St. Katherine, where we were the only guests in the hotel,
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