I’m writing you now from a Bedouin camp at the foot of Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the original ten commandments from God. Continue reading »
May 142008
May 142008
For our last night in Dahab Mike and I saw a traditional Egyptian (Bedouin?) dance show, which included belly dancing and several other types of performance I couldn’t identify. It was very, very enjoyable…until…
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May 142008
I mentioned in this my previous post how impressed I was with Dahab. Well, I should also probably mention that Dahab is in reality quite a tourist trap. Ordinarily I hate tourist traps, preferring instead to experience the true feeling of a country. But there are certain situations in which tourist locations are okay. Morro de Sao Paolo, Brazil for instance – it’s safe, clean, beautiful, and most of all, fun. Likewise, despite its tourist status, Dahab is so inexpensive that you can live the life of luxury for pennies a day – eating fresh fish, lounging on pillows in a seafront restaurant, and diving in some of the world’s most magnificent waters. Dahab would be the perfect place for a traveling programmer to just kick back for a few months and get some work done without breaking his bank to do it. There’s even WiFi internet right on the beach (although the speed can get pretty painful at times).
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May 122008
I just got back from an afternoon of freediving in the Red Sea.
Holy crap. The underwater scenery out there is absolutely stunning. I haven’t done a lot of diving in my life, but to me this is the kind of stuff that’s just too wild to be true. The coral alone would’ve been well worth the trip – I’ve never seen such a brilliance of colors – and the underwater life made it just indescribable. Continue reading »
May 122008
Dahab Egypt is absolutely full of cats. To me, they’re not at all a nuisance; they just lounge around on the sand or take naps on the pillows of the beachfront eateries. Quite cute, actually. But for those who aren’t so feline-friendly, there’s a waiter who comes around to offer some “Egyptian technology for get rid of cats.”
A spray bottle.
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