Tropicana Nuweiba Hotel
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Road Trip to the Red Sea
... this time Cheng opened up a melon and shared it around.
The police car arrived with 4 cops inside it. When they arrived couple of tourists on a motorbike arrived as well. Mamdoh asked the tourists to join us as well. Finally we were off again. The police car stayed well behind us as we made our way to Nuweiba. They police had to come with us because, as I mentioned earlier tourists were kidnapped as recent as two weeks ago in this area. We arrived at the next town and ...
A bientôt, Palestine.
... pour Jérusalem est fermé. Servane et moi échangeons un regard paniqué : il nous reste trente minutes avant le départ de notre bus depuis Jérusalem, censé nous amener à Eilat, au Sud d'Israël. Heureusement, les Palestiniens sont toujours prêts à rendre service, et un homme nous emmène rapidement en voiture à la gare routière centrale, moyennant quelques shekels.
Arrivées à Eilat, nous sautons dans un autre bus qui nous amène au fameux point de passage de Taba, à la frontière ...
The night we were abducted
... wheel. We prepared ourselves for death but we did make it to Nuweiba in record time.
2) From the camp to the port, before hopping into the jeep, Henry T brandished his driver's license to our friend, who looked at us, laughed and declared he had no license and no ID, then ranted about how bad Cairenes were at driving, before performed some spectacular slalom round a pedestrian, lorry and a car - classic Egypt.
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Red Sea NIRVANA (a.k.a. Nuweiba)
... ironically - much like Belize was to me on my first visit there more than 25 years ago (and why I subsequently tossed my Master's degree in HRM to the four winds, made a sharp left turn in my career and became an international tour operator.)
There's little to do here (which, after feverishly traipsing to pyramids, ancient temples, tombs and the World's greatest cluster of religious ...
Finally, a real beach!
... playing Ticklish Egyptian Snap. It's similar to normal Snap, except the Egyptians have absolutely no scruples and cheat outrageously, so to keep any cards at all everyone has to cheat. The punishment for cheating is tickling. It was absolutely hilarious and incredible fun (especially because I'm not ticklish, and everyone else was!), but we made a lot of noise and were told off. Oops!
Everyone had dinner together that night and we even had a couple of glasses of wine! Alcohol ...