More Egypt (well really just Dahab)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011[Note: I went on this holiday ages ago (in cases, years), and I'm getting around to posting about them]
Dahab. Is. Awesome.
I think this is the part of the trip that everyone enjoyed the most. Everything was so relaxed, there was far less hassle in the market, twas awesome.
A day in the life of:
We would get up a varying hours depending what we were doing that day, I was usually up fairly early to go diving. Laura and Tanai were up some what later as they were just relaxing by the pool/going for a walk people. The three guys and girls varied depending on how many dives they were doing that day.
By the evening we were all knackered from our activities, so we’d meet at 7pm and go to one of the dozens of red-sea-side restaurants. They all served very nice and relatively cheap meals. After that the guys would sometimes go out, but I was always too tired from doing three dives a day or reading my PADI manuals.
Mt Sinai
Some may consider it crazy but we did it anyway. A two hour drive to the Mt arriving at 1am (yes am, one hour after midnight) then a 2.5 hour walk up the top to sleep on the edge of a cliff for a couple of hours before the sun came up. Was it worth it? Definitely! The sun rise was awesome in how it lit up the surrounding mountain side and then on the way down (the stairs, we went up the path) the views in the light of day were very photo worthy.
I would definitely go up again as I enjoyed the walk and the rewarding view. The people I went up with agree that is was worth it but said they would never do it again. I suppose I should mention that I was a right prat dashing up and leaving the guide/group behind, only to be yelled at from far down the Mt to stop and wait. I can’t believe how unfit they were especially how good they looked. Okay let me qualify that. Hayley, Steph and Paula are all relatively thin and athletic looking women; Ian is taller and thinner than me and definitely seems sportier. Laura and Tanai…I wont go there.
