Sheraton Moriah Eilat
Am Roten Meer Eilat, 88100, Israel
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A day with the fishies
... We had spent most of the day in the sun, in the salt, and either walking or swimming. I showered and passed out, barely noticing when the last of the girls who had been staying in my room left. At some point much later, I awoke because my phone was ringing and I had been waiting for the couple I was with to call to wake me for dinner. It wasn't them, but I figured I'd get up and go downstairs anyway.
When the other couple woke up, we decided that we ...
I'm on a Boat!
... idea that I was supposed to get my visa sorted out in transit. The guard told me that I would have to go to immigration which was 'outside', well, I was sure it was outside but so was the entire world! Fortunately when I got outside a Swiss woman who lived in Damascus had become equally stuck and, with her knowing Arabic we had got on a bus and were waiting in a small room at nearly one in the morning for a few different men in uniforms to look over ...
Desert Quiet
We took a taxi out to the back entrance to Petra, hoping to be able to start at the top of the "monastery" building. Turns out that the back entrance is just a steep paved road for the locals to get from their village to the tourist each morning. After our asphalt descent, we climbed the 700 stairs up to the top of the hill with the "monastery" building (like the treasury but ...
Wandering in the desert
... heat. It was very hot to be doing too much walking around. There was an audio visual in an air conditioned room which the stage you were sitting on rotated as they explained details of the park. This was more interesting than looking at the real thing.
From there we went north to a wildlife park called Hai Bar where they are trying to raise as many animals from the bible as they can. ...
Worthless without a man
... A few cookies. Hmmm.. cookies which if I eat nothing but cookies will make me feel sick. But I didn’t check if the hostel had a kitchen. I didn’t have very much cash on me so I opted for the pasta and some powder stuff that you make a sauce out of. I bought 2 kinds in case one sucked as I was going off of the pictures as.. SURPRISE. It was in Hebrew. And, unfortunately, my Hebrew isn’t quiet up to snuff. Yes, I realized that the instructions ...



