After our climb up Mount Sinai, we moved on to Dahab to relax for a couple days. Dahab is a small town on the Red Sea that is just getting to be more popular with tourists. It still feels like a backpacker town, though, and even our hotel (the Dyarna Hotel) wasn’t completed finished. Nonetheless, …
When I booked my tour to Egypt with Gecko’s Adventures, one of the main reasons I picked the one I did was because it included climbing Mount Sinai for the sunrise. I was not disappointed. We were awoken at 2:00 a.m. with a pound on the door and by 2:30 a.m. we were downstairs, sipping …
The last leg of my two week tour through Egypt was the Sinai Peninsula. It was about a 6 hour “bus” ride from Cairo to Mount Sinai, through mostly rocky desert terrain. I put bus in quotes because it was really just a large minivan. Our group of 14 apparently wasn’t large enough to merit …