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Dahab, Egypt
28° 29' N 34° 31' E
Feb 26, 2006 14:33
Distance 364km

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Dahab, oh wonderful Dahab

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The bus trip to Dahab was gruelling, but well worth it! Here's a place I would definately go back to... scuba diving in the Red Sea, snorkling at the Blue Hole in the Red Sea, dining sea side on fresh seafood for next to nothing, bummy days hanging by the pool.... luxury :)

Our first day in Dahab took six of us scuba diving in the Red Sea. Julz and I were the scared one's who got to go one on one with our dive instructors... It took me a while to be comfortable with the fact I was breathing underwater, but eventually I was on my way with my instructor showing me the way, adjusting my weights and pointing out dangerous fish! Tell me why he thought I'd want to get up close and personal with a fish he just described as being dangerous??!?! The coral and sea life in the Red Sea was mind blowing. So many colours, so many fish, so beautiful. I had a heck of a time walking out of the water with the air tank on my back, so much so that my instructor was pulling me out of the water, holding my hand most of the way up the beach just so I wouldn't fall over! How embarrassing!!

The next day saw a half hour jeep ride to the Blue Hole where we could snorkle and see more of the beauty of the Red Sea. The night would bring a bus ride to the base of Mt Sinai where ten of us would take on a midnight climb to catch the sunrise which only 7 of us would complete. Some 750 stone steps at the top of a two hour rocky climb, a hot chocolate, some blankets and a matress and we were set. We camped what was left of the night on a ledge. I don't think I've ever been so cold in my life! More and more people turned up around us, and then the moment we'd all been waiting for, sunrise. After sunrise was the climb back down where our legs turned to jelly, followed by a tour of St Katherine's Monestary, then back to our hotel to get the sleep we missed.