Steigenberger La Playa Resort Taba

... home.<br><br><br><br>Backing up I will try and retrace my steps over the past week......once<br>our falucca arrived in luxor we discovered we were not in luxor at all<br>but had a 3 hour van ride to Luxor. During the hourney we made 2 stops.<br>The first was to a camel market. This is a very interesting experiance.<br>My photo´s share this market better than my words can describe. There<br>were thousands of camels all with their front left leg tied up to avoid<br>a stampede. Men were ...

... anrief, waren die ganz ueberrascht, von mir zu hoeren - von einem Steffen haetten sie noch nie gehoert. Dabei hatte ich erst drei Tage zuvor zwei Tauchgaenge gebucht! Natuerlich war die heutige Tauchgruppe gerade abgefahren und man bat mich, mich doch fuer morgen einzutragen. Morgen bin ich aber schon wieder weg. Ich konnte es echt nicht glauben!! Bin ich verflucht? Gibt es irgendeine hoehere Macht, die mich davon abhalten will, meine Karriere als Freizeittaucher zu ...

... Red Sea, lies a wonderful amount of coral reefs, Aqaba's best kept secret and may be the only reason to stop here. As soon as I book a hotel room, I make a couple of phone calls and arrange for a try-dive at 2pm (It is already my third one, so I should be seriously thinking on getting licensed as soon as I am back in Barcelona). Before the dive, I wander around the city. I can confirm what the guide says about it. There is not much to visit nor to do. Nevertheless, the city is ...

... the room to watch a movie and then read. I went for Mint tea at the Gym with the guys who work there. It is nice learning their thoughts and how they live as long as they don't begin to talk politics. Tonight there is another whirling dervish dancer. We go to watch even though we had seen 3 other performances. Len went back to get the camera and told a couple about the entertainment and she said 'Oh, I saw them on TV so I think I will pass!' Len couldn't believe what he had ...

Wednesday, Feb 18 We head out to the Damascus Gate and find a taxi, No one wants to take us to the bus station metered and if they do they want to charge extra for the bags. We head up to Jaffa Street and catch a bus, the station is at the end of the street. We go through security and up the escalator to the 3rd floor where the buses are. We get our tickets from a machine using the confirmation number I received over the phone yesterday, and the numbers of ...

Hi folks, have just returned from Wadi Rum of Lawrence of Arabia fame and before that Petra, the ancient Nabataeen city hewn out of sandstone rock. Both sites very different and very impressive, however also very touristy and expensive. In the ...

... and invincible on top of the water. We didn't want to get out, but my hair was covered in salt after around an hour, and my body felt really icky, so we took showers and went swimming in the beautiful pool, which was surrounded by palm trees and looked out over the sea. However, when I first got in, I forget I actually had to work to stay afloat, so I sunk right down to the bottom! My friends got a good laugh out of it and it was certainly a good lesson learned haha. Sadly, as ...

... of these buses. 11:30am: The ticket guys tells us that the 12:30 bus to Cairo is broken. The 4:30 bus is a maybe. 12:30pm: The ticket guy tells us the 4:30 bus is running and sells us a ticket. This is a bad time because it would put us in Cairo at midnight. Travis buys the ticket. 1:00pm: A minibus arrives with a group of Israelis going to Cairo. The guy offers to take us to Cairo for $20 a person (the bus is ...

... volunteers had just spent a week serving others under sometimes difficult circumstances and had learned about both the challenges and the rewards of serving, so I felt that was à propos, and useful to consider. Providing service opportunities is one of the main goals of the Youth Corps, so it is important to keep the topic in mind. We finished about 11:50 and rushed to check out and load the bus. We drove down the King's Highway passed Al Rajef one ...

... the Casino... I watch people play roulette for 30 minutes, and watch an Israeli walk out with 40,000 USD after hitting his number about 5 times in a row... *******. (Thats about the salary of 250,000 Egyptians for 1 month combined... No folks, the world is definitely not fair...) This is when I get the bright Idea that I will but it all on Black... Much like a similar story in Spain that I ...