Jerusalem

6/2 - 6/10

Our first night in Jerusalem we spent in the Muslim quarter of the old city in a really grotty room in a really grotty hostel. Watching the owner painfully shuffling up the steps to show us the room was... painful. We had a beautiful view through wire mesh though.

Playing dead in the Dead Sea

6/2

Back to the Dead Sea. Not so weird this time, the sky and horizon seemed to be in the right place, the water wasn't completely still and there were lots of other people around. Still amazing though.

To the desert! Again! But in Israel!

5/30 - 6/1

Couchsurfing requests sent and replies received we set off to the bus station. Not a hundred metres out the door we're hailed by a guy with a van who's going to the border and will take us there for about the same price as the bus. Bargain!

Dahab and diving. Way too many pictures.

5/18 - 5/29

Overnight bus to Dahab, tickets sold to us by the surliest and most unpleasant man in Egypt.

Again we were the only foreigners getting off the bus at Dahab. Far from the only tourists in town though, I suppose most people came from Cairo or Israel. We got a lift into town from a tout, but the hotel he was touting was pretty grim so I decided to have a look around.

Luxor, not the one in Las Vegas

5/12 - 5/18

You know the first four entries returned for Google on Luxor are for Las Vegas? In fact, it's only thanks to Wikipedia, Wikitravel and touregypt.net that Luxor is on the first page at all.