Le Meridien Dahab Resort & Spa

... s offerings. The cliffs are pocked with caves, sandstorm scoured and hand-helped, long since shelter for the local Bedouin. <br><br>Hundreds of tombs line the cliffs, built for nobleman and kings, in a city at first believed by archeologists to have been a burial centre. What vaingloriousness was it that drove such extravagance? How rich must people have been to have spent a decade on a burial site?<br><br>The pyramids were built for &#8216;gods&#8217;, these tombs are for mere ...

... 6 or 7 shots of this fish I call the NIKE shoe fish; it's so colourful and fluorescent!! I Love it! Tonight we're having dinner by the sea at a lace called Ali Babas; cant wait to order the mixed seafood platter!!! <br><br>At 11pm tonight we are on our way to climb mount sinai, it takes about an hour and a half to 2 hours to get there by car. We will reach the summit for sunrise, it's not the easiest climb, I guess no mountain is ...

... breeze. Along the way there are small churches and tons of rock stacks for making a wish - most certainly wishing to make it to the top. Towards the top there are many Bedouin that operate small shops with drinks and snacks, but are pretty over priced. <br><br>We arrived at the top around 6:45, about an hour before sunset, and just hung out. We were some of the only people up there. I think only 6 other people made it to the top for that evening ...

... mentioning. But I'm sure under other circumstances it would have been a sight worth seeing. In any case, we did not want to risk the return trip in the dark by ourselves so we decided to hire a Bedouin guide and several camels. After some fierce haggling, we came to a deal with our guide and our camels arrived. The first camel was as beautiful as far as camels go (they are perhaps one of the ugliest creatures I've ever seen) and sturdy looking. The largest camel in the group ...

... in the toilet handed me a paper towel from the dispenser and asked me for a coin in return! This 'baksheesh' was a word we would hear often over our time in Egypt, sometimes blatant money grabbing operations like my towel man but also sometimes useful things like for borrowing things or getting directions. I had pre-arranged an airport pickup for us as it was 100km's from Sharm to Dahab - the little coastal town where we had booked a hotel. The driver met us outside the terminal ...

... its about 7:15 so we will post some pics then i gotta go have dinner down by the sea again. We had a SAD revelation this morning.....one week from today we will be Back in Edmonton!!!!whine whine whine!!!! i don't wanna go back to winter!!!! Ok now i need a couple of those beer. talk to ya'll soon. Love ya'll oh yea i almost for got.....i have a complaint for some of ya'll....we start posting more pics and then ya'll stop commenting!!! whats up with that??????

... truck tyres, Egypt excels in dumping broken front windows in the desert. The roads along the Red Sea had one every two kilometres, at least. I knew they were reasonably good at football, but head banging front windows is a, to me, unknown pastime. Tracks made by cars, quads, trucks and bikes show everywhere. The surface of the desert is hard and made of coarser material than the deeper layers. Even in hard wind there is not so much sand and dust moving. Heaps of stones, pushed ...

... s edge. <br><br>After a relaxing dinner the girls all headed back to the hotel, leaving the boys to continue on to a nightclub. We were immediately drawn to one that was not belting out techno, but rather a more blokey range including Metallica and Steppenwolf, and we danced like no-one was watching. Because no-one was. We were the only four punters in the place.<br> <br>At around 2am we left the nightclub and started down the ...