A hippie paradise in Egypt Dahab
morning my friends, from dahab, a small hippie paradise, in sinai, in egypt, from the roof of an abandoned hotel, right in the heart of the tourist village, which is uh interesting and you can see the marvels of dahab, just in front you have saudi arabia, and all that, you see, the shallow water you can see here, it's a big coral reef, that you have just in the city, and look at that, we are right in the middle of the city, basically i'm staying somewhere there, on the right, not far, you can see it's all desert all around, this way is the famous blue hole, one of the most famous diving spots in the world, and this way is... this is the streets where all the tourists stay, with the expensive restaurants, and you can see people swimming and here enjoying, discovering the corals of dahab, and here people getting ready to dive, because it's the main activity around here, okay so join me, in this video let's discover dahab, but first yeah we are in the abandoned hotel, so let's just get out of the hotel first, okay let's go down what what a place to start a video, look at that, abandoned toilet, egyptian toilets i guess that used to be a room, there's the bed, the bed is gone the mirror is broken, and the toilets are very dirty let's see this way okay let's go down i don't know if it's that the hotel went bankrupt because of covid, or if it's something else. but it's quite heavily destroyed you can see that's probably the reception area, with a lot of garbage inside and the swimming pool here, with just behind you have the coral reefs, that you can see from here as well, but well okay where is the entrance, i don't remember oh that's the entrance well that's... this hotel is not very representative of what dahab is, dahab is well organized with nice hotels everywhere, and well organized for tourists and it's very cheap also, very cheap compared to sharm el sheikh especially which is a much more famous resort destination, but dahab is more like for uh well hippies backpackers, stuff like that, people like that, cheap travelers basically and what is great in dahab, as you can see no rules anymore regarding how you, how you dress or anything like that, it's as if i was in spain almost, i can walk bare chest, not far from the beach, it's completely accepted, i'm not the only one doing that, i can wear very short shorts, it's very different and it's actually very pleasant after uh probably about uh four months living in countries where uh, well you can't really dress uh all the time as you want, you have to cover yourself in order to be kind of modest somehow, so it's good also to have this oasis of freedom on the way across the middle east yeah and also here i rediscover, basically it's been a very long time... i rediscover
that women actually exist, and that there are a lot of women in the world, because usually before in the streets in iraq or in jordan you have much less women than men in the streets, and here it's like back to almost 50 50, and i rediscover that they have legs and a body well and enough talking i guess. and now let's go to... let's go to have lunch, let's go to have a typical egyptian lunch, which looks like uh... looks very much like middle eastern food, and that's the beach where you see, some people start their dive, and that's where i go to swim, usually during the day, and actually there is a coral reef also this way, so there are a few coral reefs around the city, very great, you don't even need to go to the big spots, you can just stay in the city and enjoy wonderful corals so if there are not that many people it's also because it's the middle of the day, and it's uh it's very hot it's 35 degrees, so usually it's much much busier at night let's check the menu can i have a shakshoka shakshoka, plate you order inside, i order there, yes okay i have to order inside apparently, usually it's outside, but this time it's inside okay i don't get it, i'll just go to sit and hope someone comes to get the order because that's the place to order, i don't know, maybe he didn't like the camera let's just sit and wait, someone is going to take an order at some point hopefully actually inside the guys they all have the papers already, so they already ordered so i don't know why he refused me to order okay let's try our luck once again can i order, can i have shakshoka one shakshoka plate and one baba ganoush and fried eggs... omelet yeah omelet yeah, and i take one water also 45 , $2.5 okay let's sit nice, i managed to order this time here we go, well i miss the omelette still, but uh that's the meal, so you see that's shakshuka i never had that before, it looks like it's an egyptian specialty, and we have the baba ganoush, which i love, i think it's based on eggplants, amazing, let's try it for you very very good, there is tomato onions, a little bit of eggs i think, a bit of spices, fantastic and here i've got the omelet as well i always take an omelet to have something a bit more consistent, because if i take only this and this, it's just vegetables, it's not gonna do anything to my hunger the baba ganoush is a salad, well... it's a little bit sour it's very, i don't know the taste is quite special, you have to try, it's fantastic and let's go for the omelette that's the best amazing so you can see we are just by a big coral reef, so you could walk all the way, maybe let's just show you walking, you can see the beautiful... that's dahab, that's the beautiful
bay of dahab, i don't know how you call it, very nice and like usual like uh like every day, i do nothing in the morning, go for lunch, in the afternoon i go for a swim to look at the corals, and i will see you after the swim with the corals, for dinner because i will not take you with me for the corals, but uh let's see if we can walk a little bit, you can see i walk, look at that, the corals are already starting here that's some corals already, and very quickly later it goes deeper so you can see, let's go give you a look, here you can see some corals already and deeper it's... and deeper it's even more beautiful, but like yeah you see, i was just there and i am in the middle of the corals already, very easily accessible, i'm not stepping on the corals though, i'm careful not to damage anything, okay see you for dinner guys the corals were really breathtaking, for me it's amazing it's the best snorkeling i had in my life, just outside of the city, while still i saw the corals in the philippines for example, honestly it's better here, anyway another thing, hello i should have filmed him, another thing i wanted to say, just to finish the differences... there is music the differences between uh egypt and jordan that i see, the main differences humanly basically egyptians are also very welcoming, very hospitable, very nice, but they are much more serious than jordanians, jordanians would smile a lot, and also would talk to you very easily, while so far egyptians are more reserved, they don't... probably because they are more tourists... i don't know, maybe not... but anyway yeah they don't uh seem to talk uh as easily as jordanians and basically they don't smile in the same way as well, like when you meet egyptian people, they look very serious at first, then when you start talking they start smiling and to be nice, but at first they're very very serious, which is quite different from jordanian people, anyway to finish the video, let's go to have a great seafood feast, here in dahab excursion, safari, no, it's okay thank you you can see a barbecue restaurant just here but that's not where we're going, we're going for seafood because i have a restaurant, i go almost every day, it's very very good, and it's reasonably priced as well and here we arrive at the restaurant, so you can see in arabic it's here and that's the menu in english, but i will not have anything of that, or maybe i'll have... actually maybe i will have this one, that's uh like eight euros, let's go inside, hello can i
can i sit there oh let's go here, let's go here, in the corner so let's see the menu guys, you see the ashtray is full of water and here is the music, okay let's turn the camera so you don't hear the music, hopefully it's not too loud for you, what i want to try is mixed seafood tajine, 155 which is about eight dollars let's try that, mixed seafood tajine, oh they have octopus tajin also, oh my god oh that's very tempting, but mixed seafood, no mixed seafood is better, so we're gonna have everything video yeah, youtube okay he's happy, so let's start with the starters, always they always give you the starters.... starters... i don't know if it's starters or side dishes, but it's very good some salad, some tahini, so that's a sesame paste and that's baba ganoush, they always give you tahini and baba ganoush, it goes with the dish basically that's a little bit of soup like fish soup, awesome tahini oh, it's really good, the baba ganoush like previously in the video really fantastic, let's have the salad oh so good, so tasty look at that, that's what we have, maybe there is some more coming, i don't know maybe some rice outside, some fish, nice sauce, some shrimps some bell pepper shrimps, fish, calamari, bell pepper, it looks very nice okay so i had to... actually have to order rice, because it did not come with rice
but i did not want to eat it alone, but let's go for it now, look at this beautiful black rice from the nile, i guess very good i had a bit of octopus, nice a shrimp oh very good bye thank you bye okay let's go back to the center, to finish the video and it's been um almost a week i'm here, it's quite strange, it's paradise everything is nice, the place is uh awesome but strangely enough, not with the camera, with you i feel uh... okay... i have... i feel full of something but when i walk these streets, alone at night, with all these people, in this beautiful place it's paradise, but i don't know still i feel empty, yeah paradise is boring somehow for me, that's the way it is, i always find it more interesting to look for adventures anyway yeah, it's a weird feeling i had... i wanted to tell you that because it's what i felt yesterday basically, i was walking the streets, beautiful streets full of happy people, but i just felt empty, empty, completely empty, as if life was meaningless boring paradise, see you for the next adventures guys
2022-09-16 01:55
