Ok so I skipped the entry for yesterday. It was yet another day spent travelling from Nuweiba to our hotel in Giza this time by bus and taxi once here in Cairo. We’re drawing to the last few days of our trip so its the ‘nice nights’ to end it on a good note. We’re staying at the Le Meridian Pyramid View hotel. Its lovely and we have a view of the Pyramids from our rooms.
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Not really all that much to tell from today. It was a travel day filled with the hassles one tends to get on such days. It started out all right, the taxi I’d booked the night before arrived on time and took us promptly to the ferry terminal at Aqaba. That is where the problems started.
We weren’t really in a hurry this morning so we took our time. On the agenda for today our second day to explore Petra was one of the hikes. After reading through the description of some of the hikes, of varying difficulty we decided on the walk that led to a vantage point overlooking the treasury.
After going for a walk to find an ATM in order to acquire some local currency we headed to the visitor centre at the entrance to Petra to get our tickets. Since we have two days here we got the two day pass.
We walked through the gates up the gravel path. It would be nice to imagine doing this with us being the only ones here but there is not even the luxury of that. There are seriously a lot of people here.
Today we spent travelling. For the most part and it proved to be a long day even though we spent a good deal of it sitting down.
It wouldn’t have been so bad really or so it seemed on paper. 1 - 2 hours on the fast ferry from Nuweiba to Aqaba followed by about a 2 hour drive to Wadi Musa. Easy right?
