Seven Heaven Restaurant

One of Dahab's colourful restaurants

October 22nd 2007
We've spent the last 11 days in the so-called "backpacker nirvana" of Dahab on Egypt's Sinai peninsula. We have mixed feelings about this place. At first, we were a little disappointed - zero beach, coldish ocean, incessant touts ("why not?!"), buzzing flies, and worst of all, the constant gale force wind. However, as time went on, we warmed to it. We found some good snorkel spots, including one w ... read more

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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Sharon and Scott

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Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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