Kelly and I spent last Christmas in Dahab, Egypt. The Egyptian waiters who served us fresh sea bass from the Red Sea wore tiny Santa hats and put up Christmas lights to make us feel at home, I guess. They referred me to as Amitabh Bachchan, the undisputed Bollywood legend. “Hey Amitabh Bachchan, where’s your elephant?” I was asked.
Egypt is more than just the pyramids and tombs. There’s a whole other side to the country on the other side of the Gulf of Suez. The Sinai Peninsula is where Egyptians vacation. It’s a trance-like place of desert, beach and wilderness. (Not to mention armed security checkpoints ever 15 miles or so). It’s the place of monasteries and biblical mountains where Moses is said to have received the 10 Commandments from the voice of God.
After Kelly and I exhausted our minds and bodies from all the magnificent antiquities of Cairo and Luxor, Dahab was the perfect place to eat well, snorkel and get healthy. Our driver from Seven Heaven Hotel picked us up from Sharm-El-Sheikh airport and drive us two hours north to the backpackery diving town. On route we listened to a tape of a man reciting the Quran so beautifully that afterwards when I told Kelly that’s what he was doing, she couldn’t believe it.
A Day Trip to the Blue Hole
