Taba, Egypt Travel Blogs

WUSS OUT
Dec 29, 2008 (2 photos)

... hostel.  The hostel's owner was writing a book about the Sudanese refugees who regularly came to Israel.  First, they went to Egypt, where they were looked down upon and spit on.  So, then, they paid money so they could be carried in jeeps ...

Three countries in one day
Jul 21, 2008

... jump on the bus to the Taba border and pay the 13 sheqels for the bus. 10:40am:  We arrive at the Taba border between Israel and Egypt. 10:45am:  We are stamped out of Israel.  We pay the border tax with 10 sheqels to spare.  Travis ...

Day Tour to Petra from Aqaba Port
Jul 15, 2009 (4 photos)

... nbsp;             235$        Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up from your Ship Cruise by air-condition modern van to visit Petra, Petra is a ...

Back to Cairo - again
Aug 6, 2008

... on going back to Cairo with the night bus between the 6. and 7. of August, but as it happened, there were no night bus, why I had to travel by day. I travelled via Taba, the border crossing people use when visiting Israel and the Palestine Territories.

Taba
Mar 25, 2007

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Back to reality...
Apr 28, 2008

Today was time to go home and be home at a decent hour-or so we thought. Silly us to think we could go on American time! No, it was strickly Arab time which delayed us all the way around. Remember that word "efficiency"? It still wasn't working.... ...

Day Tour to Wadi Rum from Aqaba Port
Jul 15, 2009 (2 photos)

... ;              215$        Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up from your Ship Cruise by air-condition modern van to visit Wadi Rum, Wadi Rum is ...

A very short note
Mar 17, 2008

... able to send regular updates. All travelers are well, and everyone will be anxious to share all that they have learned, seen, and experienced both in Israel and Egypt. We are looking forward to being back home among you! In Christ, Michael & Jolene

THE 22, 23, 24 AND TODAY IN TABA
Feb 25, 2009

... it is in the tourist area and a woman from France was killed and 17 others injured. It will hurt the tourist industry in Egypt. Tuesday, Feb 24 Same daily routine. A group of Czechs left yesterday and a smaller new group came in. Today a large ...

Sunny in Taba
Apr 26, 2008 (22 photos)

... full once we got done with all of that! After dinner we did a little shopping on the boardwalk and then time to head back to Taba and the hotel. It took 1.5 hours to get back and we weren't ready for the hotel buffet yet. We met around 8:00 for the ...

Cairo
Oct 11, 2004 (4 photos)

... will still never be bored, then I would have called them crazy. I'm sure by now most people have heard about the bombings in Egypt. One of my friends was stuck in Israel. Another (Mitch from SC) would have been stuck in Israel, but he was turned away ...

EGYPT PART 2 FEB 19, 20 & 21
Feb 21, 2009 (6 photos)

... out to the border. We walk through departure, get our passport paper stamped and pay 84 shekels. Walk a short way to Egypt's arrival border. We pass an extremely long, long line of tourists, probably from Kenya, waiting to leave Egypt. We are ...

A lazy day...
Apr 27, 2008 (7 photos)

Today was a day in the sun! It was very relaxing and all of us got some good color. It's about time... Mom and I took the shuttle bus that went to the other hotels to check out the gift shop at the InterCon as it was supposed to have good knick ...

FEB 26 - 28
Feb 28, 2009

Thursday, Feb 26 To day we went for a walk in the afternoon up the road, just to see what was around the corner, - just another corner. So we continued walking up the hill and at the top there is new restaurant being built. We went to look over the ...

MARCH 1 AND 2
Mar 1, 2009

... think they were Cornish game hens, but then joked maybe they were pigeons as they are suppose to be one of the meals to try in Egypt. One day we had bird tongue soup, couldn't really find any tongues, but then I didn't know what I was looking for. We sat ...

Angels in Paradise
Apr 15, 2008

Tali was blonde with blue/green eyes and a radiant golden tan... think Jennifer Aniston. She wore a white shirt over her bikini which revealed a piercing on her perfectly formed naval.  San was dark and exotic looking. Slightly more ...

Crossing the line
Dec 29, 2008

... on water. There, I hitched a ride to Eilat, but I did not stop in the city. I walked straight on to the Taba border crossing to go to Egypt. I had no time, there is only one bus each day from Taba down south, which I did not want to miss. Eilat and Taba ...

Elat
Feb 8, 2006

Elat

Eliat
Mar 11, 2006

1 night in Eliat

Eilat to Taba
Jan 21, 2007

There's no place like home, or Egypt.  We got back into the motherland, and arranged a minibus to take us to Sharm El Sheikh.

Cairo to Taba
Jan 18, 2007

... care about it. it's a perfectly good garbage can. the only green you see is along the river. egyptian men aren't the greatest. egypt would be a wonderful country if you got rid of the egyptians. they're very creepy and hit on wester women, they think we' ...

ON THE WAY TO TABA.
Jul 28, 2006

TABA is the last town of EGYPT were you fine the border between EGYPT and ISREAL,at this time we were heading to ISREAL so because of some document i could not continue and my freind when to jordan to get his flight to turkey and some european country, i ...

Egypt - Taba
May 5, 2008

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Day 14 | Ooh, luxury!
Aug 20, 2009 (2 photos)

... all the while (excluding the Nile Cruise, of course) it was a pretty big surprise to hear that we'd be staying at Hilton Taba. Pamper ourselves, dad said. It's cheap, anyway. And it actually is, pretty cheap, that is. The room overlooked the Red Sea, ...

The Border Crossing from Israel to Taba, Egypt
Jul 24, 2009 (5 photos)

It is always good to have your papers in order, Egyptian border guards wanted to know why I got my visa from the consulate in SFO rather than the Embassy in DC.  Now how do you answer that kind of thing?  Also, never take more luggage than you, ...

Colored and White Canyons
Jun 26, 2005 (25 photos)

... some time as the landscape here is so beautiful. It's funny how Hollywood can shape impressions sometimes. When I first came to Egypt, I was expecting the desert to miles of soft white sand dunes that I'd seen in movies. I was quite surprised as to how ...

Taba arrival - Escape from Israel
Sep 4, 2007

Naja , taba is a big chekpoint from where it started

Jul 27, 2009
Jul 27, 2009 (2 photos)

HOW? Hilton Taba 3 days All-Inclusive... 35USD!
Apr 7, 2008

... 3 nights All-Inclusive for 35USD....   :-) So.  We begin the story in dahab, 4 hours south of Taba, After travelling all around egypt, seeing pyramids and all that junk, I took my first scuba lesson in Dahab, then, I took the 20dollar ...

the last leg of the trip! long entry!
Jul 11, 2009

itīs been a full week since iīve journaled and may I say how absolutely excited I am to leave egypt. I had an amazing time and some unforgetable experiances that I will always be greatful for. I saw pyramids and tombs and retraced the steps of moses. But it ...