Beach Camp - Nuweiba, Egypt

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Nuweiba, Egypt by TravelPod blogger Youngtravellers. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Beach Camp As far as I can tell, there’s not a lot to do in Nuweiba except sit on the beach and take the ferry to Jordan. We did not take the ferry to Jordan (it costs $80...a little steep for us). We did get a bit stuck. We decided to go to Nuweiba to catch an earlier bus to Taba so we could get to Jerusalem before dark. The bus from Dahab to Taba doesn't leave until 10:30, you see, and that would leave us to catch the late bus, assuming questioning at the border. It's rather notorious on the Israeli side, especially if you have odd passport stuff - like a million stamps, for example. Soft Beach Camp had been recommended to us by one of our Mt. Sinai buddies as well as the LP, so we decided to go for it. We took an afternoon bus from Dahab up to Nuweiba - in so doing we refused a chartered van that would have dropped us off wherever we liked, but which was a bit more expensive and left earlier. So naturally the bus we wanted first wasn't coming and then was over an hour late. And we had to get a somewhat overpriced taxi into the northern beach area of Nuweiba, because of course the town is spread out over 10 km even though it's tiny and the bus station is nowhere near where tourists want to be (unless they're taking the ferry). Soft Beach is a lovely little spot covering a sandy beach. The main lounge-restaurant is ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 57s Date Found: Mon, Nov 15 2010 2:53 PM Category: Travel Date Produced: Mon, Nov 15 2010 2:45 PM View Count: 0