Diving in Dahab and "Mt. Sinai"

This past weekend after just two weeks of classes it was time for our first break! Thursday after listening to an interesting lecture on Muslim/Christian relations from an Anglican priest named Paul Gordon Chandler (I'll definitely write about him and a few other lectures later). We boarded the bus around 3:30pm and got there about 12am. It was definitely a long journey (more so because one of the bus drivers of our two drove super slowly). The next morning we woke up and headed out to the boardwalk. Dahab is a beautiful place right next the Red Sea. It is lined up with restaurants alongside it and whenever you wanted to you could just go for a swim. A group of us went snorkeling for the two days that we were there. It was wonderful and so cool to see all the coral and fish. To fit in with the tourists around us, a group of us guys bought euro suits for pretty cheap and decided to sport them off. And what else would a group of college guys do but have a photo shoot (Maybe I won't put those pictures on this blog?). Dahab was great, I felt like it was a family vacation with my co-hort even though we've only been together for 2 1/2 weeks.


The second adventure of the weekend was to climb the (alleged) Mt. Sinai. We left Dahab Friday night and took a two hour bus ride over to Sinai where began our ascent at around 2:30am. It was a nice hike (nothing compared to the Grand Canyon!). Surprisingly to me there was also a ton of traffic, I have no idea why I thought we would be the only group going up. There were a lot of Egyptians, Germans, British people, and more tourists. We got to the top right before the sun peaked up and got to enjoy a Mt. Sinai sunrise. Though this Mt. Sinai is one of two locations that could be the real deal, looking over the mountain was astounding and I could easily see Biblical events happening there. The sunrise was majestic and such an astounding moment of peace.