Club Eilat

... was relatively short, my pack was heavy with all the new bellydance wear I had just purchased. We walked passed a couple of camels grazing on grass. I've never seen camels grazing before. They looked so happy, just being on grass must have been such a treat for them. You could almost hear them say "Look, it's grass! I've got grass!!"<br><br>We finally make it to the Israeli border after a long wait for lazy Egyptian immigration officers who at the end wanted baksheesh. I decided to ...

... there. I must admit we were all a bit weary going out on the bridge part of the arch but we all did, I was banned from jumping :( After we all took photos etc and scrambled back down we were in the jeeps for the last time today and soon we arrived at the camp were the cook had the earth oven already going and the food almost done. <br><br>The camp was simple and very basic but quite nice, have to remember these guys are true nomads roaming ...

... perfekt" bezeichnen. Mit jedem Tag gefaellt mir Wadi Rum mehr. Der Sand hier hat verschiedene Farben: mal ist er ganz klassisch-weiss, und dann wird er ein paar Meter weiter wie mit einem Lineal gezogen tiefrot. Und bei Sonnenuntergang aendern sich beide Farben nahezu im Minutentakt. Dazu bestehen die Felsen und Berge hier aus Sandstein, der durch die Art seiner Entstehung die seltsamesten Formen aufweist (ueberhaupt nicht vergleichbar mit Granit). Erst vorgestern ...

... to take a glass bottomed boat trip but decided it was impossible for me to get on board so hired a taxi instead to take me around. Mamoud was my driver and he insisted in buying me a mango juice at our first stop which was the Ayla Fort and Castle. Ayla was the name used for Aqaba originally. The fort and castle was home to the ancient kings of the area and thought to be built in the 14th century. There was probably a ...

... climb, we walked past the theatre and we also got to walk up to some of the caves and see the different colours running through the stone. While the rest of the group kept climbing, we shopped. In Petra there is a NZ woman who married one of the Bedouins. She then wrote a very good book about it and now sells the book from Petra and signs each copy. Her husband died a few years ago but she now works at the site with her son Raami who we also met and speaks ...

... camp, though, we found out the Margaret had been stung by a scorpion in her tent while we'd been gone! We were scared to death, but we soon found out that she had been taken to a local doctor to get the shots she needed, and while she was shaken up, she would be fine. We were so relieved when we saw her that we all gave her a big hug. Then, we sat down for a lovely breakfast in the hot morning sun, and soon after packed up to leave. It was sad to leave such a beautiful ...

... of the past six days. We really had not wanted to come to Eilat, but the holiday of Shavuous was this weekend and we had to work our travel plans around that. If it had not been for the holiday, we would have rented a car and stayed at Kibbutz Lotan north of here, and then drove into Jerusalem. Logistically working around the holiday, it just didn't seem to work, so here we are with two nights in Eilat! We know we are in trouble when ...

This is what happened after Mum and I left St Katherine's in Egypt... We had decided that to get to Petra (Jordan), we would go by land rather than sea. This entails crossing into Israel at Eilat and then crossing into Jordan near Al Aquaba. We had decided to spend the night in Eilat and do the second border crossing the next morning, so our task for the day was to get from St Katherine's to somewhere on the Red Sea coast by bus and then service taxi up to the border at Taba (Egypt) and get ...