The Blue Hole

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This part of the world is famous for its snorkeling and diving. There is a place close to the hotel that is called the Blue Hole and as a group we climbed into jeeps and headed there. At the Blue Hole we gathered at a restaurant where we could leave our stuff and got fins, masks and snorkels. The Blue Hole is basically a giant drop off just feet from the shore that goes down supposedly thousands of feet. Janelle has an underwater camera and the pictures today are definitely worth checking out!

This was also the last night together as a group because some people are continuing on to Jordan for four more days while the rest of us were heading back to Cairo to end the tour. At dinner we went to another restaurant along the beach, but they are all basically the same. The little girl with the big attitude from the night before came back but the restaurant didn’t want her bothering its patrons and quickly ran her off. We had another cake but this time there wasn’t a dancing midget.

Tomorrow we have to be on the bus to head back to Cairo by 6am so instead of an early night and lots of sleep we decided to head out to a local bar and sleep on the bus instead. There was this guy at the bar who wasn’t from our group and he was dressed in bright blue plaid shorts and a t-shirt and Janelle said to me “Look there’s another American”. I laughed and told her there was no way she could know that. We weren’t close enough for her to hear his accent, she was basing her opinion solely on his attire. I approached the guy and started to talk to him only to discover that in fact he was an American. Apparently we stand out really well in our wacky clothes and our tennis shoes.

I don’t have much else to add besides that it was a late night and be sure to check out the underwater pictures below.

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2010-01 (Jan)