I never knew that there could be so many different kinds of beaches within walking distance of a place. Dahab has a mix of sandy beaches, coral, and rocky. Today we decided that we would go about 3 kms away from town to a sandy beach known as 'The Lagoon.' The same friends who we had met at the North Shore, Aly and Vanessa, also had arrived in Dahab. The two of them, Pallavi, and I decided that we would walk to The Lagoon. It was absolutely amazing. We walked along a desert, with kite and wind surfers in our view as they did their practice runs on the salty lagoons, with a line of desert mountains bordering us on our right, and the Red Sea bordering our left. It's hard for me to imagine that this is a place of Moses and Mt. Sinai. It just seems so beautiful, so bountiful, and yet so desolate.
We got the Lagoon, the rest of the 11 joined us, we set up our blankets, they ordered the beer, and we all just jumped in the water. The water was perfect. The beach was so sandy and the water so still that you could just chill for hours. The water was so blue that we had an entire underwater photo session using Pallavi's underwater camera. The pictures are phenomenal (in my opinion). You'd think it was just a backdrop or that we were in some sort of swimming pool. You certainly wouldn't think that we were in the Red Sea.
The rest of the evening was spent chilling, then going to a bad local dive bar for dancing, and then meeting up with some local who opened up his friend's beachside restaurant for us to chill at afterwards. The night ended under a clear sky filled with stars and people swimming in their underwear (not the four of us!) under Orion's Belt.
We got the Lagoon, the rest of the 11 joined us, we set up our blankets, they ordered the beer, and we all just jumped in the water. The water was perfect. The beach was so sandy and the water so still that you could just chill for hours. The water was so blue that we had an entire underwater photo session using Pallavi's underwater camera. The pictures are phenomenal (in my opinion). You'd think it was just a backdrop or that we were in some sort of swimming pool. You certainly wouldn't think that we were in the Red Sea.
The rest of the evening was spent chilling, then going to a bad local dive bar for dancing, and then meeting up with some local who opened up his friend's beachside restaurant for us to chill at afterwards. The night ended under a clear sky filled with stars and people swimming in their underwear (not the four of us!) under Orion's Belt.
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