La Reine Hotel and Dive Resort Dahab

... by the time we finished. We met up with the others who had been diving and headed back to the hotel - everyone else had also had a good day. Feeling a bit tired we decided to have a bit of a sleep.

As we’d had a late lunch and were feeling a bit tired we chose to have dinner at the hotel rather than going into town with the rest of the group. Tomorrow we will be doing only one dive as we’re climbing Mt Sinai that night.

... over to chat with him through his window. In Arabic he asks me where I am from, where I am going, and learns I am taking the long road home to South Africa.

After smiles, heart touching and general good-affection communication, he stretches his hand out to the dashboard, and picks up his string of Muslim prayer beads. A long string has 99 beads, corresponding to the 99 names of Allah. The shortened version has 33 beads, and one moves them along the string one at a time, for ...

... Lots of sad farewells to my tour friends and later on that night I head to the bus station to take a V.I.P. overnight bus to Dahab for a few days diving. My thoughts were that by taking a V.I.P. bus I can arrive at Dahab at nine am ready to dive after a reasonable nights sleep. Wrong. V.I.P. bus in Egypt stands for Very Insane People bus. It was full of many men with big mustaches, a distinct lack of deodorant and a bizarre tendency to scream in Arabic, at ...

... sunrise (I was sitting on a cliff that dropped off about 100 feet), religious groups from all over the world sang songs of praise. There were Jews and Christians alike giving praise and sharing tears and hugs and shouts of joy. The sheer physical beauty of the sunrise – it lit up the entire sky – was overwhelming. The fact that I had not slept did not really affect me at all.

We came back down the camel path and made our way to St ...

... the water and every few hours we'd pull over and meet up with our support boat for drinks, food and toilet breaks. From the minute we got on our boats, everyone was relaxed and silent.

This was the first day of the trip where I started feeling sick. It started as a head cold during the day but by night I was pulling on my fleece (it wasn't that cold) so I must have ...

... used as a museum to display military souvenirs and many busts of the past Sudans and Presidents.

The Khan El-Khalili market was very interesting. It was so crowded that at times it was hard to walk. This is the same market that a terrorist exploded a grenade back in June. If you want to buy something in Egypt, this is the place to go. I got a silver necklace for $6. It also contained a Minuet and a square where Muslims were gathering ...

... all is that all the tombs were robbed. The only reason King Tutankhamon (KING TUT) is famous is because he was the only King whos tomb was not robbed. The only king out of 72. He was also the youngest king ever dying at 17 but he was a very weak king. He only ruled for a few years. And all of you have seen King Tuts mask and sarchophagus im sure. PURE GOLD. So picture this. He was the weakest king in the history and his tomb was beutiful. Image how nice the tombs of the the ...

... for revenge to destroy all his statues. So all of Rames 2 statues are still standing but his face is destroyed on almost all of them. Alexander the great also has a temple built within the Luxor temple. Their used to be a pathway from the Karnak temple to the Luxor temple which was 3 km long. On both sides of the path were thousands of sphinx's. INCREDIBLE. THis is still standing in perfect condition today. After all the touring we ...

... Funny at first but after the 550,000 time its annoying. All asking "where you from" so we would pick the most remote islands or make up countries and had our own fun. You cannot get anywhere directly either. They all claim to take you there.. only via a few bazaars, museums, restaurants. I'm getting really good at doing runners when they wont listen to me when i yell at them. Some though are totally lovely and have the most beautiful pale green eyes you've seen.