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Diving Dahab: The Blue Hole and The Canyon
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 25 March 2012
Besides the kittens, the rooftop bars, the seafood and the fireside lounging, Dahab is about two things: the Red Sea and the Sinai desert. And in the Red Sea, the...
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In the Footsteps of Moses
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 19 March 2012
There’s something about Dahab which produces a phenomenon of sloth I like to think of as “mission creep”, but which might better be described as “mission shrink”. For, yes, we...
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What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 14 March 2012
What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down dunes, ride stones down dunes,...
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The Friday Photo: On the Roof in Dahab, Egypt
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 2 March 2012
It’s been ten years since we last visited Dahab. And, though it was firmly on the banana pancake trail back then, the miasma of hippie clothes shops and dance bars...
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Solo Travel Destination: Dahab, Egypt
Blog: Solo Traveler - 27 December 2011
Dahab is highly recommended by a Solo Travel Society member as a safe, beautiful, relaxing beach town on the Red Sea, popular with divers.
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From Sea to Sky in the Sinai
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 15 December 2010
When it came time for us to leave Jerusalem, our money was running low and we needed to get to Egypt as soon as possible. This would not be as easy as we imagined for it was a Saturday, the day of the Jewish Sabath. This creates a few problems for two people hoping to [...]
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Dahab
Blog: Leave Me Here - 20 July 2010
Dive – Sleep – Eat Dahab is the epitome of Diver-bum, backpacker hangout, staying-longer-than-you-planed, beach side town, and its where I’ve been living for the last month. Not as package-tourist (or expensive!) as its nearby counterpart Sharm el Sheikh, life in Dahab is simple and basically revolves around a handful or ingredients: Scuba-Diving, Sun-Baking, Eating, [...]
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the Blue Hole
Blog: Leave Me Here - 15 July 2010
40+ Deaths and counting. One of the more unique places to dive in Egypt is ‘the Blue Hole’ on the Sinai Peninsula. Half an hour drive out of Dahab, the Blue Hole is around 130m deep, and regarded as one of the Worlds Most Dangerous Dive Sites. Before you run off and put a lifejacket [...]
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Top 5 Safety Tips Americans and other Westerners need to know NOW before traveling to a third world country.
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 13 May 2010
When traveling / backpacking, it is important to note that not all third world countries have the same dangers to watch out for, but here are some that apply to…
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4 Secrets to 4 World Wonders
Blog: Backpacker Bucks - 2 March 2010
Make the most of your once in a lifetime experience at these world wonders with 4 golden tips from a backpacker.
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Day 12, The Bomb Scare at the Israeli Border
Blog: Flying Coach - 20 September 2009
As Sara and I sat on a curb just inside the Israeli border waiting for our new friends to make it through their interrogation by the border guards, the sirens at the checkpoint suddenly sounded, a female voice barked out commands over the loudspeaker in Hebrew, the border gate slammed shut and a man ran [...]
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Day 11, Laid-Back Dahab After One of Us Almost Gets Left Behind
Blog: Flying Coach - 15 September 2009
As the sun came up on Day 11 of our journey through Egypt, we were greeted with incredible views of the desert meeting the sea. We were in the 15th hour of our 14 hour bus ride and it looked like we only had about three hours to go. We finally pulled in to Sharm [...]
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Day 10 1/2, One of Us Stayed Awake on the 18-Hour Bus from Luxor to Dahab
Blog: Flying Coach - 9 September 2009
Flip often makes statements such as “… one of us will have to stay home and take care of the baby”, or “one of us will have to go on site and take care of this server crash…” And somehow, when he makes such statements, that unfortunate “one of us” always ends up to be [...]
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Dahab, Egypt
Blog: By Way of the World - 21 August 2009
Because of several recent terrorist attacks in the region, the Sinai peninsula has checkpoints every few hours. This made for a very unhappy overnight bus experience. Bright flashlights searching the vehicle, soldiers with submachine guns around their shoulders, asking us to dig out passports in our half-asleep state was not pleasant.
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Dahab, Egypt
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 8 August 2009
After three and a half weeks on the road, our sense of time is changing. Waiting 20 minutes for the T used to be unacceptable but now a nine-hour bus ride to Dahab didn't seem at all daunting.
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The White Desert of Egypt, Don’t Miss it!
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 8 January 2008
About 2 weeks before we left Toronto, we read an article in Mountain Life Magazine about the White Desert in Egypt. It looked like a fascinating place and we decided that we have to go there. Our bike route however, didn’t go near the place because it is situated in the centre of the country.
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Hello Cairo
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 5 January 2008
The call to prayers are playing in the distance as I write my first entry from Cairo enjoying a local beer on the rooftop patio of the Dahab Hostel.
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