Magic Sunrise Eilat
Near Kibbutz Eilot, 1057 Eilat, 88000, Israel
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A shorter day with the fishies
... with shekels that my bank is charging me more dollars to get. I'm getting double-charged. Oh, and the first 50 I got handed was counterfeit. Visually, it was reasonable, but it was on too-thin paper and not the fibrous cloth paper it should have been. I'm sure that anybody at the border would take it anyway and not know the difference, but I tried asking for a different 50 anyway. I don't think the guy in the booth understood though, because he instead gave ...
Aqaba
... deal as the barber closed up after and
gave me a lift to the pier a few minutes away.
Aqaba is located at the northern end of the Red Sea,
which at that point narrows to a bay about a mile wide. On the
opposite side of the bay is Eliat, Israel and the border with Saudi
Arabia is only 15 kilometers to the south on the east side. From the
bay it is possible to see all three countries. ...
Eilat
... at him and had to help him back to the bottom. Notable creatures that we came across include; parrotfish, goldfish, the poisonous lionfish, brain coral, coral reefs, and a Steve Irwin killing stingray. Luckily, we ran into no sharks, probably because Israel sent them to Egypt after the third shadow war of 2010.
After meeting up at the hostel Steve and Adam took a quick shower and we headed out for lunch, although considering ...
On a clear day you can see four countries
... said good-by to the friendly Jordanians at Amman airport and returned to Cairo, where we spent the night at an airport hotel and woke up early for our Monday morning return flight to JFK. Since it's usually pretty iffy trying to make international connections at JFK, I had made plans to stay two nights, do something fun in the city, and start recovering from jet lag. I took the shuttle from JFK to Newark, stayed at a Newark airport hotel, and took ...
29.5 hours of no food
... I have to pee and there are NO bathrooms cause everything is closed.
4:00 comes and an old man comes and asks if I need help. When I tell him Im waiting for the hostel he lets me know that it will be opened (if it will) at 7:00. Bah.
Ever have someone try to talk to you when they don’t know the language? Like, barly minimum? Very frusterating.
So these lovely 2, 22 year old guys come over and attempt to chat me up. They, ...



