…Egypt (13)
Friday, may 14th, 2010
our last full day and then tomorrow we will head back to Cairo, away from this dolce vita to the chaos..
but hey, we have one more day! this is the only excursion where in this case Kyrah is not coming. We have arranged for her to stay with Han and his son Jules to enjoy the pool, swimming and games as Daya and I, together with Peter, Mia and Geert and Jacqueline of course visit the coloured canyon. I am especially curious having visited those famous canyons in the US. the coloured canyon is a canyon located in the sinai desert, which gives it an extra special touch to my taste…
we are taken by a small bus and have mohammed with us as our guide. on our way to the sinai however, we see these small communities in the middle of nowhere, where you could really not imagine anyone living there… except… the cousin of mohammed. we pick him up as he looks like a member of the bedouin-tribe guarding the canyon.
simple: if you have one of them with you, you enter for free, if you don’t, you pay.
so we don’t, and as we exit the ‘main’ road, we wish we had put on our sports-bras (and i am talking ’bout the men)… the jeepsafari is included in the tour (but without the wild animals)… finally we arrive at the canyon and walk down into the gorge. it is indeed a beautiful canyon with amazing colours of all of the minerals. sometimes we see a tree and a specific type of bush of which it is absolutely incredible it can survive in this heat and drought. the same goes for the incidental animal like those funny-looking gekkos.
i have to say, the hike is not as far or straining as i thought and Daya walks the distance with ease too, like a regular mountain goat… but the hike is nice and the views are amazing!
when we get back to the hotel, Kyrah has had lots of fun and is very relaxed and Daya and i get into the pool immediately. we do some more snorkling, although the surf is kind of heavy…
we relax like mad and later we walk down main street Dahab to spend the last couple of pounds the grlz got as pocketmoney. finally, they decide to get some henna-tattoos and i have to say, they look amazing! (mostly because they come off!)…
then being the last night together, we have dinner at Nemo’s, as far as i am concerned the best restaurant of this trip. mostly, because i choose the most amazing seafood… the guys come in with a huge dish with all kinds of fish, shrimp and lobster, so after some bargaining, i ask for a plate with white snapper, huge tigershrimps (the monsters were about 30 cm!) and lobster and Mia and Geert join me. as we down some of the msot amazing
shakes so far we get the same plate, but now with the stuff grilled on it! hmmm…..
we sit by the pool with an ice-cold beer under the stars overthinking our sins and the long trip ahead tomorrow…
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