Jasmine Hotel & Restaurant Dahab

... floor of columns. The end of the Siq opens into a square, fronted by the face of the awe-inspiring &#8216;Treasury&#8217;. <br><br>Hewn directly into the rock face, 45m high by 35m wide, there is no option but just to stand &#8230; and stare.<br><br>Its common name is a misnomer, having originally been built as a tomb for Nabataean King Aretas III around 50 BC. Legend has it an Egyptian pharaoh once hid his treasure in the massive vault while on the heels of some pesky Israelites.<br ...

... close to the floor or on the floor surrounded by colourful pillows and fabrics and the red sea. They play bob marley, massive attack, Edith Piaf, Portishead, and all that other good stuff! I was rockin out to Foo Fighters last night at our pub. We ordered fresh mango milk shakes today after the Blue hole, sooooo goood! About $1.50. We went snorkeling today at the blue hole.<br>For those of you who may not befamiliar with The Blue ...

... since the steps are very rough. Either way, both groups have to do the last 750 since there is no other path to the top that is not dangerous. I opted for the stairs, even though I was sick the day before. I didnt come 5000 miles to go the easy way out. The bottom section of the steps are the worst as there is no air flow and some of it is in the sun. After a while, for an evening climb, the shade takes over and the mountains open up, providing a ...

... Brittany waited patiently for her return. Thirty minutes later, still no Lindsey. Brittany went to look for her and no sign of Lindsey. We started to panic and thought she had been kidnapped, so Brittany made Tom go with her to look for Lindsey a second time. No Lindsey. We decided to go to Seven Heaven, the best deal we had found so far. On our way to Seven Heaven we ran into Lindsey, stumbling out of a grocery store with a pineapple soda and bag of chips in hand. Clearly she had ...

... located on a sandy peninsula that juts out into the Red Sea. The Bedouin have made a business out of the beautiful coral that surrounds their encampment, offering camel rides, handmade trinkets and tea to any tourists who might make the journey. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived, we had barely an hour left of sunlight and the winds had picked up, churning the sea and clouding its usual pristine clarity. So our epic snorkeling adventure barely had much snorkeling at all ...

... to long flights by now. Sharm El Sheik was warm and sunny - a complete contrast to the UK. We bought our Egyptian visa and then joined the line for passport control. The grumpy official yelled some unintelligible words at some tourists in front of us; we stared at each other hoping that we wouldn't do anything to upset him ourselves. Luckily we emerged unscathed. It was whilst waiting for our bags that I encountered the Egyptian custom of baksheesh (tipping). After using the bathroom a ...

... We met a couple people, one from holland and one from England, and drank a couple of Egyptina beers, then came here. Just a tip, the Egyptian wine....don't bother...its not good, but the Beer is great. Nadine likes one called Meister, its 8%. I like Stella, no not Stella Artois, its 4.5%. They also have one called Sakarra king, it taste more like a Cider, but its 10%. I've tasted all of them. and when its 90 degrees out side they all taste fantastic ...

... archaeology, and lots of things to contemplate. The desert is really enormous, fragile and overpowering at the same time. The Sinai has a five kilometre wide beach, it is almost devoid of life. We see some wheatear and white wagtail from time to time, Sharm held at least four Kestrels, but Sharm has watered lawns and date palms as well. Sometimes lines and fields of bushes poke out of the sand, trying to photosynthesize through layers of plastic. Where Sudan had its stockpile of ...

... better wage, it's also home to quite a few stoners who run on Egypt time (slow). The shower water here is pumped from the ocean so is rather salty and you could never wash your hair, not that it matters to us because our hair is now hippy hair after the twelve months spent already on the road with no stylist. We normally cut our hair with nail scissors.The hotel also has one of the funky, laid-back seafood restaurants right on the sea so we spent lots of time just ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)<br>< br>There was no chance of missing breakfast today, as Hoges and I wandered over at 1pm. We had signed up for three introductory scuba dives over the next two days with a German dive company based at the front of our hotel, and after breakfast met our instructor Matthias. The Red Sea coast is a pretty accessible place to start diving, and I was amazed at the range of ages ...