Dahab, Egypt Travel Blogs

Getting very, very comfortable in Dahab
Jun 30, 2008 (2 photos)

... juice smittens your taste buds.  There are always people to chill with and places to relax alone.  This is Dahab. I ate delicious breakfast at RSRR (Red Sea Relax Resort) including a breakfast sandwich and OJ (!).  They forgot to make my ...

Diving in the desert
Sep 13, 2006 (7 photos)

... least 4 ring cycles to answer the phone, even if they were holding in their hand when in started ringing. Very strange.... Anyway, Dahab is a really relaxed beach town and is certainly the polar opposite of Cairo. It is nice to walk around and not be ...

The Vacation Vacuum
Mar 26, 2005 (10 photos)

... while I splay myself out on cushions and drink doll-sized cups of viscous coffee. To best describe the sort of town Dahab is I'd probably say it's a cross between Mykonos and South Beach but with a more laid-back feel. There is everything a traveler needs ...

Nothing really
Jul 1, 2008 (4 photos)

... Message me your address if you want a postcard.  I collect shotglasses, and I have not been able to find a shotglass in Egypt since Egyptians don't exactly drink shots.  So when I found a shotglass of Ramses II hiding behind a row of mugs at ...

Mumbling Underwater Joy
Apr 21, 2008 (14 photos)

... tourists generate over 100 million plastic water bottles of trash a year). At the same time, Egyptians from elsewhere in Egypt cannot visit Dahab or Sharm, they are just for foreign tourists so that these places can charge "tourist" prices as well as ...

Dahab
Aug 22, 2004 (11 photos)

... of about 10 camels. It was pretty good at first but after a while it got really uncomfortable particularly on the butt. Dahab had been a really excellent place to unwind along side the shore but unfortunately it was time to head back to Cairo. We ...

Procrastination
Apr 22, 2008 (10 photos)

· Dahab, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt · GMT +2hrs An extension It always amazes me how time passes when one has positively nothing to do. 4 nights we've now spent here in Dahab and we still don't know when we're leaving. The reason we don't know is because ...

"Back on"
Apr 18, 2008

· Dahab, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt · GMT +2hrs One night & counting It has been 15 days since we left the beaches of Goa, India, and now that we're back by the water Pat reckons the holiday is "back on". The fact that there isn't actually any Goan-style ...

After many hours of waiting, Sinai at last!
Jun 29, 2008 (3 photos)

... morning bus, and the next bus to Dahab was at 2:30pm!   Of course, seeing that I was trying to get a ticket to Dahab, several guys immediately approached me to try to sell a 250EGP taxi ride to Dahab (the bus ride was 20EGP).  I traded 3 ...

Dahab - the Blue Hole
Mar 2, 2006 (9 photos)

... as pleasant as it had been. I should learn to keep my big mouth shut. But we still went diving. Our destination was two of Dahab's premier deep dive sites - 'The Canyon' and 'Blue Hole'. It would be the final part of my informal test to see if I could ...

Hanging 'round Rick's reef
Feb 28, 2006 (14 photos)

... top of that (another E25 for two dives). Yikes! I signed up for two dives - the morning to be at a lovely site south of Dahab called Moray Gardens and the afternoon jaunt at Rick's Reef north of town. These dives were to be an initial test. I have my ...

The Highs and Lows of the Sinai
Apr 14, 2006 (33 photos)

... , it's not been Egypt really, but more a little holiday, a break in the sun before heading back on the road. Dahab is the backpacker beach resort of Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, although to be frank, it's not quite as low-key as I had anticipated (or ...

Dahab - loafer centrale
Feb 27, 2006 (18 photos)

... ... The cheaper, less 'resorty' part of town is known as Assalah while the Hilton et als are down the road in Dahab Town. It's difficult to describe the lay of land because it's so decentralised, but I'm staying in a diver hotel called Penguin that ...

travel tip: 234 when sleeping on the bus's ...
Sep 16, 2002

... , stars, river, noises of people snoring from across the other boats.... Great experience and a big MUST for anyone coming to Egypt in the future.. Recommend Captain "Jimi Hendrix" - no joke! For those who have been to Egypt before you will know that ...

In dahab at the moment which is egypt's ...
Sep 19, 2002

In Dahab at the moment which is Egypt's equivalant to Bali..... Here is a run down of what my day consists of.. 9am - Get up 9:30 - Eat on the beach 10:30 - Swim for a while 12:00 - Play cards with some people 1:00pm - Eat 2:00 - Snorkell 4:00 - ...

Advanced Open Water diving
Jun 30, 2008 (15 photos)

... a place without a/c in Cairo so sure, I could bear it, but why should we have to be anything but completely comfortable in Dahab?  Sarah already had her AOW, so she came along with me to do the dives for fun. The Canyon was brilliant!!!  As ...

Dahab/Nuweiba
Oct 31, 2008 (8 photos)

... cvan't attest that it is "I can't believe it's not Thailand", but it probably is "I can't believe it's still Egypt"! We are enjoying ourselves in Dahab right now, which makes us miss John and Stephy, which we left behind not long ago even more ...

Dazzled by Dahab, Dared by Mt Sinai
Nov 3, 2008 (12 photos)

After a morning ferry ride of 3 hours and then a 2 hour bus ride we arrived at the Tropitel Resort at Dahab in the Sinai Peninsular. This was to be our home for the last 3 nights of our Eqypt trip. The next morning we signed up for a camel and snorkel ...

Chlling in the Land of the Burning Bush
Sep 23, 2006 (8 photos)

Dahab, Egypt. Entering Egypt was even crazier than leaving Jordan. When we arrived, everyone crammed into buses to be taken to the luggage area. Once there, I learned I couldn't go through customs until I bought visa stamps from one of the many bank ...

Dahab....Egypt
Sep 9, 2005 (6 photos)

... Dun dun dun....STEAK AND CHIPS!!!!! And we found Cadburys chocolate when we were in Aqaba! So, here we are now in Egypt chilling out in Dahab on the Sinai peninsula, we are going to relax in the sunshine and swim in the sea, maybe try scuba diving and ...

Torturous hours at Mt. Sinai
Jul 2, 2008 (5 photos)

... gone either. The hike pushed my limits and strengthened my mentality and physique that have been weakened by the transquility of Dahab.  It was a totally different experience from say, going up to Junfreujogh by a nice red train in Switzerland.  ...

Damn it, no runny bum
Apr 4, 1998

Arriving in Dahab, this was a different Egypt. Tourism, that is backpackers had invaded this part. It was chilled out. Restaurants lined the front, with outside eating next to the water. Dogs outnumbered people here. You could sense that explosion was ...

The Sinai
Jan 21, 2005 (3 photos)

After our film-making debut in Petra Mike and I got on the ""fast"" ferry to Nuweiba, Egypt from Aqabe, Jordan. Much running around and confusion. Expensive but far better than taking the slow ferry. By nightfall we arrived in Sharm el-Sheik. Not at ...

Sunrises and Projectile Vomiting........
Nov 10, 2005 (6 photos)

... all our lack of sleep..... So we came back to our lovely room, had a nanna nap and then proceeded 30m to the big lights of Dahab. We started off with sisha and ended up at this great bar with an open fire and 80 egyption men keen to get it on with ...

Dahab....Oh so relaxing!!
Sep 15, 2005 (5 photos)

... to rest it, and we keep cleaning it with antiseptic...Its much better than it was! So, we shall just bum around Dahab, eat beautfiul meals and chill by the sea with a milkshake or fresh juice which are both their specialitys here! So, on Saturday we ...

The Blue Hole
Jun 25, 2008 (12 photos)

... something.  So we got the menu.  The prices were ridiculous.  Even the tea, which is practically free in Egypt and usually a pound, costs 10 pounds.  The cheapest juice was 20 pounds ($4).  The food wasn't worth considering.  ...

Arrived in dahab on the sinai peninsula ...
Dec 2, 2000

... in Dahab save diving and snorkelling. I spent about 3 days snorkelling in the Red Sea at various dive sites along the Dahab coast. Visited the Blue Hole which was about 25min drive up the road along a pretty prehistoric dirt track passed some half-built ...

Looking over the sea at Saudi Arabia
Oct 4, 2003 (1 photos)

... to me. There were some charming little girls selling handmade bracelets for much less than the stores. That's another thing about Egypt. It's easy to get ripped off if you aren't clever with your shopping skills. But there are definitely some really ...

Doin Diddlysquat in Dahab
Oct 2, 2003 (3 photos)

... about an hour of nothing but desolate desert terrain dotted with the occasional seaside development, we pulled into Dahab. My first taste of Egypt was very stereotypical with landscapes of neverending sand and dust with the heat rippling up distorting the ...

Dernier jour a Dahab
Sep 2, 2008 (1 photos)

Derniers instants a l'hotel Christina, nous quittons l'equipe a regret tellement ils ont ete gentils avec nous. Cet am, nous prennons le bus pour Sharm et puis l'avion pour Alexandrie.