Over the Red Sea
It wasn’t planned to happen as fast as it did, but when we arrived at the ferry terminal in Nuweiba we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of the process of getting the car out of Egypt. Our original plan was to scout around the first day in Nuweiba to get a grip of what papers we needed and what authorities we had to see…but with our lack of Arabic and the port authorities lack of English that was difficult to explain – so instead of preparing the crossing, we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of the paper work.
It must be noted that the authorities in Nuweiba are much more helpful and efficient than their counterparts in Aswan – and in this port there is no self-declared-all-mighty fixer but a correct officer from the tourist police who took us through all the steps one by one (without hinting of a little something in return)…and there were many of them – steps to go through that is….
I am not sure how many pieces of papers that were signed and how many stamps that were made in our documents but after some two and a half hours (this all took place within the harbour so no long distances to cover) we finally could reverse on to the ferry. And eventually we left Egypt. On time? I don’t know. Because I don’t know when we were supposed to have left – we were given three different departure times and none of them corresponded with the time that we actually left the harbour.
It was great to arrive in Jordan. Organised and efficient. Found a good spot to set up camp just south of Aqaba – a friendly place just by the beach called Bedouin Moon Camping. So we decided to stay a couple of nights, celebrate the Swedish midsummer and enjoy the Red Sea.
Seems You are becomming experts in passing boarders and handle cumstoms authorities on this trip.
Based on the description on the camp You found emediately when arriving Jordan, You are experts since long already in that as well. You have to give us a lesson!