La Siren Nuweiba

Nuweiba, South Sinai, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt

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A bientôt, Palestine.

A travel blog entry by stereotype

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... venir, temps bédouin oblige), tout comme la température de la Mer rouge, qui nous invite à piquer une rapide tête à 22h30.
Le lendemain matin, nous réservons nos places pour une randonnée dans le "Colored Canyon", et nous voilà parties en jeep dans le désert du Sinaï. Nous ne sommes pas déçues du voyage dans l'étroit canyon poli par une rivière asséchée depuis des siècles, et aux couleurs naturelles magnifiques. Pressées, nous ne attardons pas plus longtemps et partons pour Dahab.
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The Red Sea

A travel blog entry by hilary_todd

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... of land left along this coast) and through the barren mountains, we arrived at Sawa camp – a rustic campsite on the beach where we would be staying for the next few days, located about an hour south of the Israeli/Jordan/Egypt border. The place was simple, but really lovely (thanks for the recommendation Sarah and Ty). We had a bamboo and palm thatched hut on the beach, with a hammock outside. There was nothing really much to do except ...

The night we were abducted

A travel blog entry by hulmann

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... my head, and I started attacking the gun wielding phantom, which was in fact Mr H Tufnell. Luckily, I wouldn't be much use against any terrorist, and Henry just laughed...

We also had two interesting taxi rides.

1) Taxi driver picks up long lost relative on the desert highway through the Sinai, they get chatting, not really looking at the road, driving on the wrong side etc, but we were used to ...

The Ferry Bust

A travel blog entry by kristinrust

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... finally on board and they take your passport for border patrol or something, you get it back when we hit Jordan soil. So, you’re not getting off. My fantasy of Tiger hovering over the ship with a helicopter to whisk us away was doomed. Instead, we sat in a large, florescent-bulbed dining room and ate foreign Cup 'o Noodles, our Jordanians right there with us.

Assuming we’d head off soon, I went out back to find a bathroom, and ...

A destination is not a place but a way of seeing

A travel blog entry by sorbus

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... on this beach; uneventful until a soldier with gun and bayonet attached (!) came to visit.


Security is tight on Sinai. Three frightening terrorist attacks in the last 5/6 years resulting in many dead with confusing ideas about who and why is responsible. The many checkpoints make up in enthusiasm what they lack in efficiency. They grabbed our passports, fought over who was to hold them (foreign passports!) and read them cover to cover as if perusing ...

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