So the 0550 wakeup call was entirely too early today. After a big breakfast we piled back onto our bus and headed to the Cairo airport to catch another flight. The whole airport process was relatively painless and the flight to Sharm El Sheikh was only about an hour.
Sharm El Sheikh is part of Egypt but located in Asia. It’s a Mediterranean feeling here and evidently it’s a large tourist area for Russians and the British in addition to the Middle Easterners. While it’s a nice area, the day started out with a little disappointment. Our hotel was supposed to be a beachside Marriott Resort but it turns out that there are two Marriott hotels and one is across the street from the beach… guess which one we were booked in…..
So the inconvenience of not being on the beach wasn’t the only trouble… we had been booked in the very last building in the back of the resort and the accommodations were not quite up to expectations. After a day of shopping the junk shops and some pool time the hotel did move us to decent rooms. After moving I got cleaned up and headed out to dinner at an Italian place over on the beach.
That was about it for the day,,, tomorrow is going to be a beach day and then we are headed out on the bus for Mount Sinai around 10:00 at night to hike to the top and see the sunrise and St. Catherine’s Monastery. I’m not so sure about that whole deal but since this will be my only chance to do all of that stuff I’ll go with the flow. I’m still loving Egypt and the people
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