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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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break . . surprisingly there was a "Western-style toilet," but the "special thing" about this toilet was that it was on the edge of the cliff on top of a hole in the cliff. Not being one that's a big fan of heights, I got my business taken care of and got out of there - what an awful way to go "American girl falls to her death off Mt. Sinai bathroom." Going down was much easier than up and in less than an hour we were back at St. Katherine's Monastery at the base. We had passed through the monastery before climbing Mt. Sinai and gotten to see the real Burning Bush where Moses was informed by God of his divine calling. People believe that if they break off a leaf or a twig and take it with them, it will bring them good luck, so at just about arm's reach from the ground all the branches of the bush have been stripped of leaves and broken off. I thought that from the looks of it, the Bush needed as much help as it could get and I left its leaves and branches alone, although I did touch it just so I could say I had.

Two hours later we were exhausted but back at Penguin relaxing by the edge of the Red Sea when Emad the manager came to say he had some "bad news" to break to us. Due to a "storm or large group who had booked the ferry or something" the ferry he had arranged for us to take us down the Nile to Luxor had been canceled, but conveniently our rooms hadn't been booked by anyone else for tomorrow night so we were welcome to stay and pay for another night. You read in the guidebooks that everyone tries to scam you in Egypt and think "I'm smart enough they won't fool me" but then you realize it isn't even an issue of fooling you or not, you're at their mercy - you can't speak or even read the language and they're all in on the scams together, so even if you ask another hostel down the street to book you a ferry they won't because they're buddies with your hostel. So maybe I'm just too skeptical and the ferry really did get canceled . . . anyone it was nice ...