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view from  the roof to swimming pool

Tropicana Nuweiba Hotel

, Seacoast Nuweiba, South Sinai, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt

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One Day, Three Countries

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... There is supposed to be a fast one and a slow one. Fast = 1 hour, Slow = 5 hours. Only, not today. “No fast boat today, maybe tomorrow.”

Ok, plan B. To the bus station. Bus to Taba in the north. Walk 15 minutes to the Egypt border. Cross border. Another story altogether but let’s just say that the border guy wanted to make us tea (!) and tried to steal my pen. I’m also pretty sure that he is using the same stamp pad ...

Relaxing by Red Sea... which is blue...

A travel blog entry by kazntrsawsmadvn

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... isolated beach in a place like this is heavenly...

You have your very own little bamboo hut, your own stretch of beach, hammocks and cushions sprawled everywhere to while away entire days on... all these things add towards just chilling out.

This conjures up images in the head of total relaxation but until you've experienced it you are not aware of the drawbacks. Doing absolutely nothing is fine... but what happens ...

Road trips are measured by moments, not miles

A travel blog entry by sorbus

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... rain. Mornings we go to buy bread for breakfast and are educated in the way of producing the flat loaves – from stirring the flour mixture to eating is but a minute or two. It's rough bread, “public bread” we are told, and delicious torn apart with fingers and eaten fresh.

Life is lived on the sun bleached beach. Daily I buy a bright bracelet from a lady wearing many layers of black. The bracelets cost less than one euro each but she has little ...

A destination is not a place but a way of seeing

A travel blog entry by sorbus

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... in the seas off Nuweiba? And did manna descend from the heavens or was it secretions of the tamarisk tree sucked by lady beetles which made globules that fell fine and white to the ground and tasted of sweetness? The monk prefers not to dwell on the rational reasons. He has his faith. Me, I am on the side of logic.


St Catherine's is best known as the home of the burning bush from where God spoke to Moses. A Rubus sanctus. I remembered it from last visit. A ...

Finally, a real beach!

A travel blog entry by amanda_escapes

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... first sleep-in I'd had in forever. Mikel took us to the port, where we had to say goodbye to him. We were all pretty sad, since he'd been an amazing tour guide! The ferry system is a bit odd - the ferry starts in Jordan and just leaves when full, so there's no way to know for sure when it will arrive in Egypt to pick people up. Luckily for us we didn't have to wait too long and were on our way by 3pm. And that was our last city in Egypt!

Peace, love and little fishes,
Amanda and Ben
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This hotel was formerly known as: Tropicana Nuweiba

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