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The weekend I was 5KM from Saudi Arabia
... before that were wrinkled from sleeping in them.
After breakfast at Ali Baba we hit up the Red Sea for some swimming! All of the women on the beach were wearing hijab and some even niqab... so I swam in my clothes. It felt refreshing none the less. There are lots of Saudi families vacationing in Jordan right now that are easy to pick out from their dress. Men wear a thawb with a keffiyeh. It is law ...
The Dead Sea, Engedi & Masada.
... off a rock. I did enjoy the floating feeling although you get a bit of a back ache as it pushes you into odd positions. I didn't spend long in there, and had a cold shower to get the oily film and salt off your skin. The older kids seemed to enjoy the experience more than the younger ones. A word of advice to all - if you ever go to the dead sea - don't go in here, there were better places down further. After everyone was out, we were trying to work out how we ...
Can I come in?
... spent hanging out with Kale's couchsurfing friends Ronnie and Shay, who had stayed with Kale in Mandurah, Australia before. They did their military service time in Eilat as hiking guides and Ronnie now works as a dive instructor in Eilat... Sounds like the right people to explore the Eilat outdoors life with! We went to coral beach, got some snorkeling gear and had a nice look around underwater in the gulf of ...
A Very Different New Years Eve
... hours. We the tourists were just treated as an inconvenience, given some food away from the main area and left to our own devices on a cold night in the desert.
We did attend the party for a while, but we weren't involved at all, and standing around the edges of a dance floor playing largely loud Middle Eastern pop music is not my idea of fun. We tried short walks in the desert - pleasant but very limited opportunity at night. We tried sleep - impossible given ...
Ferry to Jordan!
Although we were forewarned to simply "write-off" the day we left Dahab we still weren't too prepared for the long day ahead of us attempting to cross the border from Egypt to Jordan. As we couldn’t drive around (entering Israel would mean we couldn’t get into Syria) we took the ferry from Nuweiba. However only the slow ferry would accommodate the truck, so the 4hour option was the only option available (rather than the fast 1hr ...