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The plane touched the runway, the pilots voice announced that our liner
landed safely at the airport in N, the temperature behind
18 degrees. The house we were met by the usual slush and cold. "Well, thats
ended on vacation, as a general impression of the trip? "- I turned to my husband.
"Thank God that remained alive and healthy." Yes, of course turned out to leave
little extreme. Well, lets start all over again.
Day one long-awaited vacation, it was decided to be held in Thailand, but it turned out that
entry into the Thai need to
acted after a trip of at least 6 months,
since her husbands passport expire before we offered to fly to Egypt.
Decided to fly via Moscow. In the printout, which we have issued a travel agency, would
Departure from Sheremetyevo. Number Sheremetyevo while for some reason is not available, so
It was decided to go to Sheremetyevo-2. Arrive, travel looking for a representative Intourist,
stands nowhere to be found on the information answer:
- From the Sheremetyevo-2 aircraft in Sharm El-Sheikh from Intourist, do not fly.
- ... How not to fly ... long?
- Fly from where you are in the documents written.
I took out a printout, showing ..
- Well, you see written departure from Sheremetyevo-C ...
It turns out this hitch, printed under the name of the airport and was originally
adopted for the spot, proved to be an essential element. Well, all right, got
yet to Sheremetyevo C and were cherished envelopes with vouchers. I opened the envelope
and a new shock. In the booklet about Egypt written that the right of entry of persons that
validity of the passport which is more than trip 6 months since carnival the end
poezdo8. At her husbands passport expires within 5 months, while in a travel agency assured
that the validity of the passport must be at least 3 months. At the head is drawn
paintings, as her husband is deported from Egypt, 4 hour flight flew into a panic. Moreover
I panicked, and her husband sat down and assured me that they even watch the photo will not be
not so much time to compare.
Airport Sharma ... questionnaire to enter a country filled with yourself, saving
5 dollars, buy a visa and no problems have been monitoring. The first phase was
successfully, leaving only a well-populated.
The hotel chose a long time, but so far chosen, the hotel has become a stop and had to go
in Domina
Sultan Pool, as the way not spared.
Day 2 to 9. Swam, sunbathed, had time to cheer. In each trip we take
pound of different pills all. Read about that in Egypt the main
the problem of diarrhea, cuts from the coral and sea urchins, they took with them the means of
gastro-intestinal problems, plaster and iodine, just fire paracetamol,
Citramon and painkillers. All the stomach was brought back, and paracetamol husband
all ate. Suddenly got a very high fever, night could not knock it,
had to abandon the planned excursion. I do not know that, in the end
does, whether the number of tablets eaten, or that the pits were eventually lined his
cold towels. Ill most likely from the fact that too much time
spent in the water.
Red Sea, How nice it is indescribable but it is better to see once than a hundred
thousand words. Fish a lot, some poisonous, but the danger is not fish
and themselves a rest, because I received several fins on the head, a blow
kicked in the ribs and jump on your back with a pontoon. All these complex acrobatic
stunts were done with my body without my consent.
In the sea was carried out once an hour to 1.5, the feeling that swim in the aquarium. Once
sailed 2 hours, talking to her husband:
- Look, something in me so sore ribs
- Breathing hurt?
- And breathe in the water hurt?
- Everything is clear, that you have gills are cut.
After the mask, I swam wherever possible, decided to dive with an aqualung.
The cost of pleasure 50 dollars. Dived from Diving center hotel, not ventured to go
with some left the firm. Once a student for a year engaged
scuba diving, studying theory, dived in the pool, though we were taught to
old scuba gear, but to study in the basin, its like learning to drive,
playing on the computer in a car race.
Feelings of diving hard to describe, its kind of a mixture of horror and thrill. When immersed
saw sea turtles and orlyakovogo slope. Under water, everything is beautiful, while you swim
along the reef, but when the turn away from the reef, but there is a dark blue space
with small patches of plankton, for some reason reminded of the movie frames "Deep
blue sea ", and becomes a somewhat macabre. In general, very, very much.
Now about the actual extreme.
Since the planned excursion to the pyramids and Israel failed to get,
had to be content with small excursions. First, lets go ride
on
ATV. Skated once in Tunis, so the comparison is with
than. Unpleasantly surprised by the quality of technology. First, for some reason not given helmets.
Secondly, quadra so dead that surprising at all as they go. Poyekhali
with a group of Italians, all went in pairs, and one girl and a guy rode alone.
Ten minutes later, after having entered the wilderness of their transplanted together, so
quadrics as one dead. On the way back yet from a pair sdoh Blocks and put
Blocks to the accompanying, and ATV and was thrown into the wilderness. My husband and I traveled
together, I was driving back from the engine drifted so eagerly that painfully burned ankle,
so was going to pose , then crossed her husband on a belt, then scoring it in general
3 oclock fabricate acrobatic stunts on a moving RMS. Judging by passing
by quadrics, in such a position were almost all sitting in the back, although the accompanying
insisted that it should be. The very rhythm of travel too surprised - 3 minutes of going,
five minutes stand someone repair. We left at 4, cruise back to 8, darkness,
all for some reason there was only one lamp instead of two, I am glad that
not sat behind the wheel yourself. Although what one would expect for $ 25.
Next trip involves visits to the Monastery of St. Catherine
Colored Canyon, resort Blue hole and shopping in Dahab
. Buying trip
I, as subsequently proved, and many others, believed that this walk with
visit the monastery and a viewing platform on the background of the canyon. How deeply I was wrong.
Traveled two jeeps, with a capacity for 10 people. In the jeep, two benches
the entire length across from each other, about any seat belts naturally
There is no question, as well as about the comfort. On the way to the monastery saw tips over
jeep, he flew off the road and lay straight in the wilderness, 2 people from 8 strongly
damaged, the man still got some time, but the woman has remained
lie, and the tourists themselves were busy and tried to help the victims and drivers
aloof. Then he dragged the woman and began to walk circles around the machine,
lamenting that, as is so, such a machine, carnival and broke, and a man generally scored.
Passing tourist buses offered assistance, but the drivers and the accompanying
refused. Such an attitude towards people shocked.
Okay, lets go further. Traveled to the mixed group: in one jeep, 10 carnival Italians,
in our 4 Russian, deal a pair of Italians and a couple deal from Cyprus. Everyone thought that we were trinidad going to amuse,
One woman was wearing a dress and a few people in the shales, no one imagined
what awaits us.
Monastery visitors without incident, went to dinner. We arrived at the cafe, we go
and then guide said we will not eat, go out. I asked what it was in response
- Here today, too expensive, I do not know why, go cayman into the canyon.
We arrived in the canyon. The conductor took the rope that all alarmed, but the answer
was so necessary, was given a bottle of water and they all went. Precisely 2 people in shales
remained long and indignant that they tourism were not warned that an inspection of the canyon is
not visit the observation deck. Come on, the heat from the stones degrees 50, as they walked,
in the shadow of the stones were still normal, when we reached the plateau of feeling that came to the
pan. Hour of the day, a terrible hell, spilled water immediately evaporates, instead
to plateau quickly pass, we stopped and began to talk about that here
God descended to earth and brought the commandments, then began to talk about the stones
that they are white inside and red outside, so the canyon and is called color.
The story was first in Italian, then in broken English, and then in
more broken Russian. All nearly fainted from wedding overheating. But the adventures
just beginning.
It turned out that the whole future of the way through cracks in the canyon. Since
limestone slot canyon is absolutely disgusting, not hooked to that. Reverse
There is no way, so stay out of the slit. Im not a big girl and then got stuck as
they climbed women bigger, for me remains a mystery. Since we do island not
were equipped adequately, and in one girls leg failed
a crevice and it traumatized her. The leg was swelling, the girl began to howl.
At the foot can not stand, nor drugs, nor impose a tire. In general, stuck
we are in a hole resembling a well, do not you reach up, down only
on a very steep cleft of wits, and only with the help of ropes. On
one leg does not go down. 3 times the girl wedding tried to pull it to leg
can not rely, roaring, foot bandage nothing, the water was over, the heat,
all wrong, the other girl was claustrophobic, she got hysterical
that it was not warned that it would all condemn. Overall madhouse.
An hour later, the girl with a sick leg still lowered. Came to my turn.
I have experience of mountaineering, thought that the girls just panic.
But when I saw where to climb, said not useful for such a minimum
need harness, boots and rope longer. We let down as follows.
Tied his rope around the waist and gently used to pit down, take his guide
Egyptian, that any language can not understand, first pulled on a rope
so that I hung in the air without support, I thought I would break the spine,
and then abruptly released, I flew meter and got his foot in a crevice,
and then he pulled. So cool.
We crawled out of the canyon at 6 pm, hungry, angry and traumatized.
Since the departure was early, all ate at 6 am and by that time already 12 oclock
nothing to eat. Started swearing with a representative of the organizer, Italian
demanded that they took her to the doctor because her leg is badly hurt, of course,
nobody nowhere was carrying. The first jeep with the Italians went home, she asked,
so she was put into this jeep, but the attendant said that there is no place.
Italian guy demanded to call the consul and head of tour company. Maintainer
shouted in reply, that he was round him and did not sell for anything in front of him not responding.
At one point he said, in general, you have a voucher that you bought the tour,
No, here you sit and keep quiet. Then he started shouting Cypriots that they promised
more diving in the blue hole, lunch and shopping, that we were all deceived, and they
will complain. The whole conversation was of course in English, and our
sitting and asked, and what it was about something and where they are taking us. As a result, we
taken to the Blue hole. The Italians continued to yell that they need a doctor
and not in the canyon, they do not want to go, this is a kidnapping, because they were being taken
without their will.
We came into this in the literal sense of the hole at 8 pm, about how to dive, of honeymoon course,
There was no word, gave us some nastiness, and then taken to the shopping
in Dahab (this was just a travesty). Finally at 21-30, our "wonderful"
trip over, and we landed at our hotel. Room with air conditioning,
shower and a normal dinner seemed to us something of paradise. All day
we licking his wounds from the "wonderful" trip to the Colored Canyon. For
interest already on arrival looked all the offers of our tour operators
of Colored Canyon, and only "Tez Tour" in the notes to the tour
pointed out that this tour involves risk. If we knew that from a
This tour is unlikely to be there, we climbed.
The last day rented a digital camera for underwater photography
and nasnimali a fish. Before buying a disposable camera with film,
but the quality is terrible photos, so I recommend a figure.
Conclusion 1. In Egypt, the less you can feel calm in the
hotel outside as lucky.
2. The most valuable thing in Egypt - is the sea. There is going
for the sake of the sea.
3. On all trips in the country now going to go only with tour operators.
Perhaps from street agencies cheaper and such here intsendenty rare,
But I would not, that they happened to you.
4. Still, September - not the best time for rest, hot.
5. It is better to go 2 times to
Than once on 12.