Day 12 Discover Egypt I wake up about 6am and watch the sun rise over the mountains of Saudi Arabia. The sun light catches the red sea and the sky is amazing mixture of reds and pinks. I sit and have my first cigarette of the day. Grant walks past and says he is going to get a coffee so I join him. We sit and drink our coffee and have a cigarette and in a little while Jen joins us and has a tea. We all head back to our huts and I go for a shower. It's then...

Day 11 Discover Egypt This morning we get a bit of a lay in as we don't have to leave the hotel until 09:30. So we have some breakfast and then it's off to visit St Catherine's monastery. We walk up the hill and wonder round the monastery for a while checking out the burning bush for the second time and then we head back to the mini bus for our drive to the red sea beach camp. After a couple of hours on the bus we arrive in the town just before the beach camp a...

Day 6 Didn't sleep very well last night I have gone down with Pharaohs revenge. Tried the sage tea I brought in Aqaba and that didn't work. Most of the day I have slept hoping that my stomach will be better tomorrow for the climb up Mt Sinai.

Day 5 20/07/11 Today I woke at 05:00 to watch the sun rise over the mountains of Wadi Rum. We have a breakfast of pitta bread , jam and honey but I just have the coffee. 07:30 we set off heading toward Aqaba to catch the ferry over to Egypt. It is our last day with out guild Mohammed and on arriving in Aqaba we head to a hotel to meet a travel rep who will sort out our tickets. We pull up outside the hotel but there are no free parking spaces apart from an ar...