Sultana Village Nuweiba
Nuweiba, South Sinai, Red Sea and Sinai, 36204, Egypt
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One Day, Three Countries
... joke. This chowbouy, you know like jhon whayne, he ride into town on joolyie 14, stay tree days in this town and ride out on joolyie 14. So, I say, how is this possible?” Says cabbie. “Because that’s the name of his horse.” Says Cara from back seat.
We arrived in Petra around 2pm. Amazing.
Tomorrow is more amazing – we get to go into the wonderland of Petra – the city built in Rock almost 2000 years ago. ...
The Fast Boat - a 1 hour trip that took 4.5hours
Today we were going to be leaving Jordan and travelling across to Egypt - it is not really easy to cross borders here, and especially Israel charges quite a lot just to depart. So we decided the best way to do this was probably to go by ferry from Aqaba to Nuweiba. But as seems to be the case in these middle eastern countries - nothing is straight forward. We packed up our gear, had breakfast and organised the bill to be paid - they had no idea of how much ...
Relaxing by Red Sea... which is blue...
... away...
...of course though, there are no taxis driving up and down this isolated road.
Essentially what is boils down to is that you have no control. Being in a place like this may help to unwind but when you inevitably get itchy feet... it can become quite hard work.
For us, our time has been nice but we are now keen to do something, even if it just means being surrounded by civilisation... Egyptian ...
Road trips are measured by moments, not miles
... Schneer as wish to catch up on history of the countries we are passing through. The declaration you'll recall, said Britain would use its “best endeavours to establish in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people” and “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” Britain, as usual, played and plotted and deceived all sides, the Arabs most of all. The then Pope had ...
A destination is not a place but a way of seeing
... in spiritual contexts (plus, less spiritually, the ancient Greeks used the powdered seeds to rid themselves of tapeworms. )
Bart climbed/rode a camel up Mt Sinai in the middle of the night (along with 1,019 other people!) to see daybreak over the mountains. With my back ( a feature which is rapidly taking on a persona of its own) that I could not do. So in the morning early I went to St Catherine's Monastery. When I was here before I could hardly move for ...


