Egypt, Day 11: A long goodbye to Egypt

Day 10 was a lazy day on the beach in Nuweiba, with a little snorkling in the warm water by the colorful coral.

The last day started well with a leisurely morning and a nice breakfast. The rest of the day was a total 3rd world disaster. We had to arrive at the port by 11am for a ferry that wouldn't leave until 3pm-ish, which should have been our first warning. There was no organisation, no clear direction. We just sat in the hot waiting hall for hours on end. There were plenty of air conditioners, but none were turned on. There were also lots of flies and the worst toilets on Earth. Then, suddenly, everyone jumped up and clambered out the door onto some decrepit old buses that took us to the ferry. All the luggage has to be thrown in big trailers, then you queue up in the bottom of the ferry. We eventually make our way inside, but our guide does not. He is held at the passport control on some paperwork issue and is sent off. Fortunately, we had a guide in Jordan who would meet us. Once inside the ferry, everything was different. It was nice, clean, comfortable, cool, and mostly orderly. The only problem was that they forget to give us our visas, which caused a bit of delay on the arrival in Jordan. At the arrivals hall in Jordan, they tow up the trailers of luggage and everyone swarms them and digs through to find their bags. We'd put all ours together and along a side, so we got through it pretty quickly. Then off to the hotel in Aqaba, a nice, modern city that was everything that Egypt should have been.