We stayed in a nice 4* hotel which had everything we wanted...
The holiday started off strange as our guide was a little dodgy and made sure he told me to "watch my girl" when he dropped us at the hotel. Fair point but obviously made me wonder why he would say that. Anyway the first day we decide to visit Naama Bay which has lots of shops, the beach, restaurants etc...
We got a taxi and the taxi man insisted we book our return trip with him because getting a taxi back from Naama just wouldnt be safe, fair enough we said collect us in 3 hours. As soon as we left the taxi it was like being dropped off in the lions den. We were surrounded by shops and the shop keepers were standing at their doorways ready to pounce. for some reason we were the only people walking around the shopping area, no other tourists in site.
Within 2 minutes we were approached by a guy who was nice and introduced himself to us and we got chatting. To two naive tourists this just seems like a local being friendly until he eventually got us into his shop. He then proceeded to sit us down and shut the door. At this point we smelt something slightly fishy lol and then he said he was going off to make us an arabic drawing of our names lol. His brother then enters who proceeds to bombard us with perfumes and creame, rubbing creams into my girlfriends arms. I was like "Nah I dont fancy any perfumes at the moment mate". This went on for a while a we eventually had to get up and storm out because they just wouldnt let us go.
2 minutes later another guy approaches and I just say no thanks and walk on, then one minutes later two others who this time I ignore and then they proceed to get angry shouting "Do you not like Egyptians". Then a huge Egyptian guy comes over and offers his hand so I felt obliged not to piss him off so shake his hand and he wouldnt let the fuck go lol, he was holding and squeezing it for fooking ages.
I finally go my hand free and my girlfriend and I walked off again and kept our heads down. We didnt know where to go or what to do all we knew was we had 2 and a half ours to kill. Eventually we found The Hard Rock Cafe and the moment I walked in there felt like heaven haha familiar surroundings, English tv and nice burgers lol.
We burnt a good while in there and walked back to where the taxi man was collecting us but bloody hell, what an experience. I appreciate thats the Egyptian way but everyone I have spoken to have said they are never going back because of this carry on.
Anyway Day 2 and determined to enjoy the rest of our holiday we start of by booking a snorkeling trip in the red sea. We then just chillax by the pool for most of the day roasting in the 35 degree heat.
Halfway through the holiday I start getting use to their food, I also grew to love chickpeas lol, something I use to think was a bland food stuff, it can actually be used and incorporated into amazing meals.
Probably the best part of the holiday was the snorkeling in the Red Sea. It was totally fantastic and a once in a lifetime experience imo. We headed out towards Tiran Island around 8am in the morning in a lovely boat. After 3 hours in the boat we stopped and had the chance to dive into the seat and follow the instructor on the snorkeling route...
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