Changing Buses

Arriving in Dahab

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February 14th 2009
About 5:30 it became light enough to see that we were on a highway with sandy dessert on one side, leading right up to the ocean with arid sandstone hills on the other side. By 6:45 we were at a place called Abu Zneima, which my map showed me was on the Sinai Peninsula, heading South toward Sharm El Sheik. This meant that the bus was not going the most direct route to Dahab and it seemed unlikely ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Sinai » Dahab

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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