sinai

  • Sinai – Dahab’s other story…

    Sinai – Dahab’s other story…

    I’ve separated this post from the last one.  The story is the kind thing that doesn’t make it into travel copy – ‘Social commentary, we don’t have the word count…etc…’ As I described, for visitors Dahab is a funky beach stay – excellent dives sites (the Blue Hole and others) and, even for those packing…

  • Sinai – the other Egypt

    Sinai – the other Egypt

    I’m just back from another Sinai trip.  A few days in Cairo then 10 1/2-hours by bus to Dahab. In Cairo I stayed at the same  $10 Downtown hotel I’ve briefly called home on numerous occasions since my first visit to the city in the late 1980s.  I’ve seen the place buzzing, filled by young Israelis…