Sinai - Egypt

These pictures were taken on a ride from Sharm el Sheikh to Taba along the length of the Gulf of Aqaba. An interesting journey (as long as you don't have to repeat it). Miles and miles of rock, sand, hills and just the very occasional living scruffy shrub where it could tap into deep ground water.

The area is the domain of Bedouin Arabs who for millennia are the only people who were able to make any kind of living, or even to have come up with any reason to be here at all. That they could do so is by keeping moving rather than trying to live in any single place as there is no-where that could support a settlement except along the coast where there are a number of fishing villages - that are now mainly jumping on the tourist bandwagon as a reason for development is finally arriving.

The interior is empty, though it possible to go there as part of a moto-safari or take part in a (tourist version) of a traditional Bedouin feast. Otherwise, it is apparently the domain of gun runners and drug smugglers amongst the more law abiding Bedouin.

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