Swiss Inn Resort Dahab

... and is adept at saying &#8220;only one Dinar, cheap&#8221; in most. He has been bantering, selling, looked down upon, seen as exotic, turned down, trodden on, dusty, proud, for four decades. He can banter with anyone, to get what he wants in the valley. Caged, cooped, &#8220;I am a Bedouin, I am of the desert and ages, I am free&#8221;, yet he is trapped within a world cocoon completely woven by the small talk of cash and carry, money on holiday, gawkers and passersby for the most.<br ...

... at St Katherine's monastery, an 8th century monastery that is a pilgrimage site for many Christians from around the world. This is the site of Mose's burning bush, and attracts many, many tourists. I feel like there were more people here than at the Egyptian museum, and it was low season. Inside the church there was some small alley ways between buildings that so many people were packed into one could not even move. There were some famous ...

... freaked him out. The dive was an amazing dive, you descended down a rock chute to get to 30 meters. At 30 meters there were cleaner fish which when you take out your regulator they will come in your mouth and clean your teeth for you. Lindsey put them in her mouth but was too weirded out to let them clean her ears. From there you swim along a sheer reef edge to get to the blue hole that had amazing coral and beautiful fish. It was cool to see the contrast of the coral on ...

... the land while herding goats and other livestock. In former times, they would traverse tremendous distances on their camel caravans. Today, they use Toyota pick-up trucks. Nonetheless, they are instantly recognizable not by their looks so much as their demeanor. It is hard to describe exactly, but they seem to emanate a strong sense of pride, solitude, and regality now largely alien to the rest of the Arab world. While the Bedouin way of life has slowly retreated in recent ...

... booths. Out past the busy touristy waterfront area we noticed a strange thing begin to happen. Cars would honk their horns at us, their drivers would slow down or they would stop and ask us if we wanted a 'taxi'. We soon realised the drivers (all men) were all looking at Cesca! She was not dressed too provocatively for a western country in a singlet and shorts but here in Egypt it was more flesh than the average Dahab male had seen in a while. One guy even started to make kissing ...

... fall back asleep.<br><br>Anyway, woke up in not the greatest of moods and my number one priority was to hit the banks and try and get some money out. Found one bank that was doing cash withdrawals over the counter and doing foreign currency. Result. Drag was that I needed my passport so I had to trot back to the hotel and get it. Apparently there is a problem with Visa cards all over the Middle East. Which is slightly annoying as my bank changed my debit ...

... wechselgeld nachrechnen...wohl zu oft getaucht...aurelie is auf dem weg nach frankreich. damit bin ich wieder alleine...werde mehr inet nutzen, meine sachen waschen, mich rasieren, einfach mal nix tun...und dann mal schaun. JOrdanien war nett, aber so viel zu schreiben hab ich jetzt nicht...wie gesagt, bin breit. die videos werd ich spaeter einsortieren...wollte sie nur mal hochladen...bilder spaeter.

... became, and the fish were in every direction, every color. I've never seen such things.. this blows the Great Barrier Reef and Western Samoa out of the water, so to speak. I couldn't believe it. The experience washed away all of my tension and I knew I was witnessing something amazing. <br><br>The only other thing that somewhat tainted this leg of the journey <br>was my growing irritation for time alone. I've realized a lot about <br>myself, how I ...

... were left lying around. Settling into our room, Paul sat down on one of the beds and with a loud cracking sound ended up a little lower down than he had expected. Lifting up the mattress revealed half the wooden slats were missing. And then there was the small rubbish bin by the toilet. Due to the small pipes laid in Egypt, in every place we stayed in it was expected we would put all used toilet paper in the bin ...