They tried to make me go to Dahab...

I'd like to start by appologising and adding two corrections to my previous post.

Nr 1: The Tajik city of Dushanbe has erected a flagpole which is 165m tall, also there is a North Korean flagpole which stands at 160m and therefor the flagpoles in Amman and Aqaba have been knocked down to fifth and fourth place respectivley.

Nr 2: I wrote that we would take the ferry across the Red Sea to the African Continent. Technically I think the African continent starts west of the Suez canal, so even if we have now reached Egypt we are still in Asia on the Sinai Peninsula. 

Now back to business. After some more Amazing Race style running we just managed to catch the ferry following some contradicting information on departure times. Two hours later we were in the harbour of Nuweiba where we after some minor problems were allowed entry to Egypt. From here we got in a minibus which drove us to Dahab. Not long ago a quiet Bedouin fishing village on the shores of the Red Sea, backpackers found Dahab and converted it into a tranquil beach spot. Today it has once more transformed and now offers relaxation to a wider spectrum of tourists. We enjoyed our first real beach-life of the trip and wasted a few days just relaxing on the small beach and snorkeling in the crystalblue water. Unfortunatley it was in these clear blue settings I was tempted to experiment my camera's underwater features. It turns out my camera is not quite as waterproof as it claims to be, and doesn't function properly anymore. After getting our dose of sea, sand and sun we travelled north on the Sinai Peninsula through the desert and stopped at the Mediterranean mouth of the Suez Canal in the town of Port Said.