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Hello! After lots of requests and many weeks my latest travel blog is now up! I’ve decided to jump around and go ahead and publish the Middle East ones prior to the Christmas break one (the photos are done but not the writing, I’m working on it, things have been busy!).

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Lisa Damico
2007-04-21 22:25:29

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enough to have a Bedouin-style outdoor dining experience in Dahab I'll give a brief description . . . 75 degree weather, ten feet from the edge of the Red Sea, big, brightly-colored pillows spread out on the floor surrounding
low wooden tables covered in candles under a covered pavilion with catchy Arabic music playing in the background. Emad welcomed us to his hostel- more like an ocean resort, gave us an overview of possible activities for our stay - snorkeling, diving, climbing Mt. Sinai, etc., and then gave us a tour of the place. This tour included viewing the rooms we had originally booked and the rooms with private bathrooms that we could have at a "special discount price just for us". One of the many great things about Egypt is the prices - 1 euro = 7.5 Egyptian pounds or 1 dollar = 5 Egyptian pounds - therefore this "special upgrade" was the equivalent of 50 centimes more a night for a double room with bath instead of a dorm room - not a difficult decision to make. With business over with for the evening once we selected the room upgrade and signed up for a diving package, we were escorted back to the "restaurant" and handed dinner menus. Fresh mango smoothies for everyone followed by the selection of exactly which fish we wanted grilled from the iced seafood display accompanied by seasoned potatoes and sautéed vegetables made
for a very enjoyable dinner (well enjoyable until one of the many cats that seem to be omnipresent in Egypt jumped onto the table and dragged the remnants of my fish dinner onto my lap and then off into a corner . . .). Bellies full, we retired to our rooms to rest up for the following day's diving excursion.

The next morning we enjoyed a complimentary breakfast at the Penguin outdoor restaurant, which by daylight revealed an amazing view of the clear waters of the Red Sea and Saudi Arabian coastline just across the sea. As I wanted to embrace the Egyptian lifestyle as much as possible I chose the Egyptian breakfast ...