Wadi Rum, Jordan

Shannon found a Jeep tour with camel ride, sand boarding and Bedouin overnight online through Bedouin Lifestyle Camp. It was a bit pricey at 80 JD per person but it is something we both really wanted to do. We loaded into an Aqaba taxi at 7:30 am and one hour later and 15JD we arrived […]

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Aqaba, Jordan

1 Jordanian Dinar = $1.85 Canadian = $1.41 US Let start with the ferry over to Aqaba… we decided to venture out and take the local ferry to cross the boarder. You can cross over land from Egypt through Israel and then onto Jordan but this would require various bus changes and immigration and customs […]

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Dahab, Egypt

We arrived in Dahab in the evening after a quick flight from Hurghada to Sharm El-Sheikh. We haggled with the taxi guys in the airport parking lot but decided to walk outside the airport area to the main road for a better deal. We found a taxi to take us the 100 km for 500 […]

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Hurghada and Luxor, Egypt

We thought we would take the ferry from Sharm El-Sheikh to Hurghada but once in Sharm we found out the ferry no longer ran. I was not about to take the 8+ hour bus ride back to Cairo then a 10 hour train to Luxor so we decided to fly on Egyptair the 30 mins […]

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Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

After 8+ hours on the Go-Bus and multiple check stops (including two military stops having to take bags off the bus for searching) we made it to Sharm El-Sheikh. The girls pretty much slept the entire time again. We grabbed a cab for 100 LE, which was way too much for where he took us, […]

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Giza, Egypt

We found a hotel right outside the front gates of the pyramids called Mena Inn Pyramids where we stayed for three nights. It had everything we needed and the courteous staff even upgraded us to a room with pyramid view for no extra charge. A traditional Egyptian breakfast was served free of charge to the […]

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