Hi there yaggayagga!
I think you have to start a separate thread looking into your egyptian passage on the way to Sudan. Please make a more concrete plan, I had a look at your posts and found out you were so unlucky that easyjet now stopped flying to egypt leaving you without your booked air transportation.So where you fly finally? Is a VERY LONG way to go from Jordan to Aswan just for the visa of Sudan, If you dont have something to tour on the way I suggest you pay some little more money to fly to Aswan directly..
Currently I am not in egypt (godwilling will visit again December) so I cannot verify about the boats. As far as I know (I made this route Amman to Khartoum December 2012) there are boats going from Agaba/Jordan to Nuweiba/Sinai-Egypt and riverboat from Aswan to Wadi Halfa (the latter used to be only once a week so plan your travels to not be stuck in Aswan for longer than a week).
Please come again with more details on your situation and plans in a separate thread, though you will not attract a lot of responses, not many travellers on this route.
all the best
Anas
I just came back from a 10-day vacation in Sharm yesterday. There are no safety issues whatsoever in Sharm. It's not empty but of course tourist numbers are down considerably. There appear to be mainly Russians who are maybe less scared by travel advisories than Western Europeans (my personal theory). Egyptians are definitely happy about any tourist who does come to the country as lots of people in the tourist industry are losing their jobs because business is so slow.
No need to lecture the thread starter.
He simply wants to know what it's going to be like in Sharm.
Tourists continuing to go to Egypt will help the country more than people staying away and crying about the situation.
At the end of the day, it's personal choice. The British gov say its fine to go to Red Sea resorts but you have to think whether you are happy going to a country in crisis.
Sharm el Sheikh is fine - I live there. Im British. Currently its warm and uncrowded. The people here have no animosity against you and will be grateful for your contribution to building the tourism econamy again. Currently forget the pyramids and trips out of Sharm. Stay in Sharm and you will have a fantastic time.
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..... johnthemason, the link is from a company involved in the Tourist Business and you are a first-time poster here, so I take your advice with a pinch of salt and advise Travellers to think twice before holidaying in Egypt now.
"Currently forget the pyramids and trips out of Sharm. Stay in Sharm and you will have a fantastic time"
Sorry Johnthemason,
but not every traveller can enjoy Egypt contained in the very unegyptian tourist traps of the redsea,
genuine travellers always put the archeological and other cultural places of egypt on top of their travel agenda, I think you are not contributing to their search writing this advice to go egypt just to stay in Sharm.
very sorry again....
Anas
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