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Of course no trip into the Sinai Penninsula would be complete without the obligatory ride on a Power Ranger™ Touring Bus. The way I see it, people go to Egypt to see three things: The Great Pyramids at Giza, the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, and the interior of the Sinai by Power Ranger™ Bus. It's sort of like our very own desert Orient Express. Dorky Egyptian busses aside, we started out from Cairo via an East Delta Company bus leaving from a hub in Abbassiya. It cost us maybe $10 a piece for a ten hour, air conditioned ride to Sharm El-Sheik. The only detractor were the movies in Arabic -- with the volume completely cranked -- so it was near impossible to do anything other than watch the unintelligible movie. Quite the long trip, but just about the only economical way to get from Cairo to Sharm.
(I pose at the foot of infamy. The only thing worse would have been a Barney Bus. We actually did not travel on this bus, but saw it in St. Catherine village at the foot of Mount Sinai. The only thing that topped this bus was a shirt we saw at one of the countless roadside stands which read: Backs Treet Boys.) |
