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Travel Blogs from Dahab
Last week in Egypt: Sun, sights and Satanic cats
... back of a ute and settled down in the Camel restaurant right by the spot. Lorraine explained about the reef, what we'd expect to see and fitted our masks. She took us around the reef guiding and then we enjoyed a great seafood lunch. It was a really relaxing day and the fish in the Blue Hole are spectacular. For dinner she recommended a fish restaurant called Marim for Fish, a dindgey one man shop off the main drag where the concept of a menu is to go to a large ...
Journee a Dahab..
Aujourd'hui, apres 8 jours de travail non stop, trop bien, je me rends a Dahab avec un groupe de clients. C'est ma premiere fois tout seul.. Avec moi Franziska va plonger avec deux clients, moi avec six. Je dois donc organiser la journee, aller chercher des bouteilles au club de plongee, organiser la plongee, faire le briefing, reserver pour le restau et tout et tout. Je connais la plupart des clients car ils ont tous ete plus ou moins sur mes bateaux cette ...
Wilderness Wanderings
... which was quite interesting seeing the big fence along the border. There are numerous firing ranges along this road (on the Israel side) and there were lots of places where military exercises were taking place and we could see tanks in action and soldiers shouldering backpacks through the hills.
We drove through the Ramon Crater which is a MASSIVE crater created by erosion supposedly. It is quite eerie looking with very stark rock faces.
At Sde Boker we ...
Pharoah, Let My People Sit on a Bus for 18 hours
In what will no doubt go down as probably the highlight of the trip, hell - the year, we spent 18 hours on a bus going from Luxor across the Sinai Peninsula to Dahab. It wasn't exactly 40 years searching for a land of milk and honey, but the less said about the bus trip the better.
Our time in Dahab has been very ...
Sinai Desert Safari
... is its eye (see picture plus imagination). Kat and I couldn’t agree if it looked like a camel (Kat: a sad, lying down camel) or dinosaur? The guide took us on a route up one side of the sand dune but I’m British damn it!!! and I’ll walk straight up this dune. Half way up and I’m flagging. Holy **** is was steep!!! My feet were just sinking into the sand and I swear the dune was getting longer. I huffed and puffed and reached the top where I ...