Left at 5am to avoid the traffic theough Cairo and it worked well and got to the Suez Canal Tunnel at 7am. They haad to phone and verify my permit and that took 8 hours!
Then went 500m and stop again for twenty minutes while three guys take a photo oof my passport and then make phone calls and finally let me go. Another 60km I am stopped at a big police checkpoint for an hour and a half and then they have to escort me. After a 100km they let me loose and I completed the 200km on my own in the dark, passed four tourist beses being escorted by the police, but zoomed by them and arrived in Sharm at 8pm. Not ideal doing 15hours for 520km but happy to have got down here, cause I can enter Israel from her, no stopping me now I hope. Am at the Dive Inn and the name describes it, at $25 a nigjt it's not that bad, filled with Russians. The Egyptians are not real nice folk, very unfriendly and arrogant till you challenge them, then they kinda lighten up.
DAY 120 & 121
Went snorkeling both days, the maringis life is exceptionally spectacular, and that's all they have here, a huge tourist place woth all the trappings. I don't particularly care for it and look forward to leaving for Duhab tomorrow and diving in the Blue Hole.
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