Sharm al Shiekh

While hanging out with Ryan a few days before, he mentioned that it might be fun to go to Sharm al Shiekh or Dahab, cities on the Sinai Peninsula, for a bit. We looked up flights and found then super inexpensive. So the next day we hopped on a plane to the Sinai Peninsula. After arriving in Sharm we settled into our hotel (It had a few issues, but was under new management and trying to improve.) before heading out on the town.

Sharm is very Vegas like. There is a strip filled with all of the major hotel chains, lots of neon lights and obnoxious people. There were actually not a lot of people at all in Sharm. It was super low season and I don’t think many people were travelling to Egypt because of the whole riots thing.

We ate light dinner at one of the hotel chains and then wandered into their downstairs bar which was deserted. These two very blond Eastern European (and possibly high) women come bouncing in. They were some kind of children’s dance program from the hotel and it was apparently children’s dance time in the bar. (At 9 o'clock a night?) They came over to us, pretended to steal my watch before corralling their children on the dance floor.

After that experience, we decided to go for a walk down the boardwalk. It was fairly deserted and a bit lonely at points.  We wandered down it for a while. We stopped for a bit to watch a whirling dervish show at a restaurant. We also got stopped by some random creeper dude who wanted to chat. We told him we were from Genovia. We export a lot of pears and are a Baltic country. (Made all that up; it’s a Princess Diaries reference) We walked a bit; got hassled some, had a drink at Hard Rock Café and then took a cab back to our hotel.