Safari Beach Resort Nuweiba

... the hostel for her flight to New York, where she's going to work for the next year until her next assignment in Richmond. It's a pity that I didn't read it before Turkey, but I'm glad at least that I finished it before leaving Israel, as it pertains to the forced relocation, death marches, and pogroms of Greek, Turkish, and Armenian populations as nationalism shredded the ottoman Empire before, through, and after the WWI (that's the Great War for ...

... walk you have to do with fins on we put our fins on in the water and off we went. I have an Olympus 1030 SW camera that is rated to 10 m [33 feet] that I took on the dive. Our maximum depth was 19 meters but the camera held up pretty strong. It got locked on video mode, fully zoomed out, once, and resulted in a file that was corrupted on the camera. After I got home I found out it would play in quicktime. I will edit it down as I caught ...

Thursday 9th July. Aching we arrived at the port of Dahab in the Sinai area of the desert and got off the bus only to find the bus we were planning on getting to the seaside town of Nuweiba was 7 hours away and none before. A tout offered us a ridiculously expensive taxi to Nuweiba 80km away and we said no and sat down and waited not sure if we would be hanging here for 7 hours or not. The toilet was non-functioning and putrid and still they charged to use it and I was feeling ...

... many people had only first met on the bus ride down, so during this time when we couldn't communicate but only obey orders, people were on edge and wondering what everybody else was thinking. A few days later, I would learn that in saying thank you to a British girl who had told me the time, I had reassured her that the rest of us weren't all crazy, athletic, and motivated people ready to be tortured. Ironic. Our gear consisted of: boots, 2 pairs of army uniform pants, 2 ...

... Saxby. We were stopped quite regualy when out tickets would be checked and our passports proabley about 7 times in total this happened, security is very tight in this region due to terroism and other problems. Driving through the Sian area was really beatiful, the mountains were similar to the ones I saw in Tibet and as I was driving along you could see a large number of dead camels just rotting in the desert. We finally got into Dahab at ...

09/02 - So we made our way to Nuweiba, Sawa Camp which is where we get to relax & do nothing for the next 2 days. Our camp is located on the Red Sea & is only 20 mins from the Israeli border & opposite Saudi Arabia. It's really quiet here at the moment cause of all the stuff that has been happening with Israel & Gaza, no one is traveling to this area, it's very peaceful though. 10/02 - Today was a day of absolutely nothing! John went snorkeling, we read books, ate & ...

... But, maybe, that first doubt had already tainted and contaminated my well-lade plan? I got to Eilat on the Red Sea, and began preparing. I sold the last of the last stories I had to sell, to friendly, young Israelis. I traded my used Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary to an American girl. She, in turn, let me copy the page of her passport with her Jordanian entry stamp on it, which I did nervously in a library. Afterwards, the American girl's friend and I ...

... Red Sea coast in Egypt and Israel to dive). It was spectacular -- parrot fish, barracudas, needle fish, clown fish, butterfly fish, amazing corals, sea stars, sea horses.....the water was so blue and clear. We also went out in a glass bottom boat, which Ronan LOVED !   It was really amazing to be in schools of fish and among the corals.  We wish we had had more time to scuba or snorkel--we all want to come back. The aquarium had a ...

... were only a few hairs that I removed from the bed after inspecting the sheets.  (Yes...my level of cleanliness standards has significantly dropped.)  3.  At GAD for lunch next to the bazaar I sort of lost my nerve when the workers told me that I had to pay the 10% service charge because we were eating there.  But no one else from my group had to pay the service charge and I wasn't about to.  They were obviously talking about me and laughing and ...

... 4:45am in the pitch dark (no lights of course) wasn't fun and the fact that, of course, there was no water in the room at all, salty or otherwise, just added to the 'lets-get-the-****-out-of-here' frustrations.

· International relations restored
We knew when going back to the ferry ticket office this morning that the guy selling the tickets, assuming it was the same dude as 24 hours previous (it was), wouldn't be too ...