what cute kids:)
playing at Ras Sudr
palm trees on the beach
tanks on the road
We left Maadi after church on Friday 22nd and drove 2 ½ hrs. to Ras Sudr, Egypt on the Sinai Penninsula. To get there, we crossed the Suez channel through an underground tunnel and passed through multiple security checkpoints with insanely high speed bumps (FYI: when bring car to Egypt, jack it up as high as possible to be able to still drive it---that is what all the taxis do). We drove south along the Gulf of Suez (which is what the “bay” that connects the Red Sea and the Suez Canal is called officially---really it is all just the Red Sea!). We saw mainly barren desert next to turquoise water, but also passed 2 giant tanks driving on the road, off-shore oil rigs and deserted-looking small towns with busy tea shops (very indicative of Egypt, where a lot of people are sitting around drinking tea all the time and doesn’t look like anyone is running anything in the town). We drove into the Ramada hotel and got settled. Probably the most run down, dirty, bug-ridden hotel I have ever stayed in but shockingly the place was pretty busy. After we saw the beautiful beach we understood why. There were a bunch of French people from Maadi (2 families happen to live in our building and we didn’t even know they were going there) and they said they come in spite of the terrible rooms, for the kite surfing. I guess it is one of the best places in the world for that…..shallow water, nice wind year round. Despite the bed breaking on us in the middle of the night (and yes, we were ONLY sleeping) and the kids getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and sand flies, we had a great time at the beach and the food was pretty ok too---very French, which works for me:)
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