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Diving at Gabr el Bint, The Canyon & The Blue Hole
... From here we looked up into The Fishbowl: a beautiful cavern filled with loads of small fish and corals with sunlight streaming down through them. In the past this was the exit from The Canyon and must have been stunning. However, the diver traffic through this small opening has caused too much damage and deterioration to the site and it is therefore no longer used. Hopefully this will allow the marine ...
Africa; but not Africa
... I decide to go snorkelling and take a taxi to the Blue Hole where there are a lot of other tourists swimming around looking at the reefs and the various fish. Their flippers constantly hit the reef but they don't notice because they are terrible people. The fish are brilliantly coloured and far more numerous than I could have expected, but being stalked by (unidentified) fish with razor sharp teeth sends me back to shore. Till next time.
To Cairo!
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My Birthday!
... give us lovely views of the Blue Hole behind us - as well as a view of the actual path that was a bit further inland!
Rather than going back, we figured we could meet the path further along having negotiated the precarious ridge we'd climbed up and we managed it without too much difficulty.
Just around the corner we came to what was to be one of the first of many stunning, empty beaches, where you can see the reef just offshore, glistening in blues and greens at ...
Rock Climbing isn't Easy (but great fun)
... higher. This time it was rather difficult to figure out where you were supposed to actually put your hands/feet to climb! But using alot of brute force and unknown-to-me upper strength, i had my figures stuck in cracks that were millimetres wide and pulled myself again to the top. But the time we got to the last wall (and after eating a turkey sandwich mmmm) I really felt it was impossible to do. After much slipping and more grazing to add to ...
What a shocker of a day
... dinner at 10pm. After dinner we collected our room keys and headed off to prepare for bed which I finally fell into at 12:15am - a full 24 hours since I struggled out the day before!
What an epic day it was: climbed a mountain in Egypt, drove to the Red Sea, boarded a ferry to Jordan, passed through border controls of both countries, drove a good distance from the sea to Petra in Jordan - a BIG day, but was it fun or what... bring it ...
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