Sinaï

30/04/08

- From Aqaba to Nuweibaa -

From Jordan (Aqaba) to Egypt (Nuweibaa), we took the boat after many time lost in Aqaba, changing money and asking for Visa in the Egyptian consulate. This day was only a long trip, so you know now that, with some chance, you can make Wadi Musa (Petra) to Suez (Egypt) from 6 a.m. until midnight by bus / boat / microbus… But don’t remember something that nobody will tell you: You have to stamp your passport for the Egyptian border entry at board!

- Sinaï -

From the east sea-side of Egypt to west cost of the Sinai, a bewitched and silent desert seems to be lived only by Egyptian army checkpoints, I strained my eyes but I did not see any animals! It’s a kind of black hole by night, you feel on the moon, losing human life from the last summer camp on the east sea-side: Suez city and border coast appear as the first human lights after all of this black out! I love Sinai by night. I was thinking a lot about all guys travelling in this little service, running as fast as it could to reach Cairo as soon as possible, on this Wednesday evening many of them was surely going back from their work – on the luxury summer camps or on the Nuweiba harbour – to their home…On that thoughts, I already figurate out that Egypt is third world…