Crossing the line
Trip Start
Dec 13, 2008
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Trip End
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Taba, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt
Monday, December 29, 2008
The sunrise over the Jordan mountains was just as good as the sunset. I started hiking down "my" mountain, back on a track that would lead me to the road: I didn't want to, but I was running short on water. There, I hitched a ride to Eilat, but I did not stop in the city. I walked straight on to the Taba border crossing to go to Egypt. I had no time, there is only one bus each day from Taba down south, which I did not want to miss. Eilat and Taba both have beachfronts with huge hotels etc, which is not my thing. So I crossed the border (the first time I crossed a non-European border on foot). That was really easy, a quick x-ray of my bag, the question if I carried any weapons or drugs ("No, not today...") and I was through. Egypt!
