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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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platter - falafel, hummus, tzatziki sauce, black olives and fava beans - sounds like strange breakfast food, but it was actually very good. Donned our bathing suits and did our best to squeeze into the "a size too small diving wetsuits" as crowd of local Egyptian men quickly gathered to watch all the giggling and jumping around. The staff decided these wetsuits were not too small, but just right and sent us on our way to the "Blue Hole" each of us with a box of diving equipment. As I mentioned earlier, diving enthusiasts label Dahab as one of the best diving sites in the world and are not wrong in doing so. We were assigned two diving instructors and I was paired up with the French woman, so upon learning we were all working in France, I got my diving instructions in French. She held onto a handle on the back of my air tank and we went about 12 meters down (~36 feet down). Lots of tropical fish and coral; the highlight for me was seeing a lionfish. Some of my friends found breathing underwater scary, but I had a great time and was just sorry I couldn't swim where I wanted to for longer. Forty-five minutes later, Sofie the dive-instructor and I resurfaced and the others got to take their turn. I enjoyed some fresh guava juice in the sun while I waited for the others. The rest of Monday was spent strolling along the boardwalk in the sun, checking out stores where all the storeowners just happened to be willing to make "special, first customer of the morning" deals just for us. I purchased the Egyptian dress that my father had informed me I should have when touring the Middle East along with some jewelry, Bedouin tea and postcards. At first 50 Egyptian pounds for a dress seems like such a great deal ($10) but once you figure out how all the bargaining works, you realize you can at least get them down to 50% of the quoted price and then some, if you play your cards rights. By the end of the trip I couldn't bring myself to pay more than $5 dollars for anything. ...