Subject: Post: At 6am we jumped onto a bus, that took us down to the southern coast, to Aqaba. I guess I ended up sleeping most of the bus trip, after sleeping again for less than 4 hours during the night. The bus driver was trying to sabotage my sleep though, playing some religious speech really loudly. Morning prayer or something..<p>Now we finally are located next to the Red Sea, it's only 30 meters to the beach from the balcony of our hotel, so you can guess what we have been doing during the day. Snorkeling in the sea, sleeping the hottest hours of the day and then continuing snorkeling. I burnt my back slightly, but it was worth it. The coral reefs and the fishes were cool, in the totally clear and water.<p>This is a also the first time I have ever seen four countries from a single spot. While we are in Jordan, Egypt is only a few kilometers away on the other side of the sea, and Eilat of Israel can also be seen easily. And, just 2 kilometers from us on the same beach is the border of Saudi Arabia.<p>A friend of Don actually was picked up by the Saudi coast guards, while he was snorkeling in here and entered too deeply into the Saudi waters. That got him a few hours of nice interrogation. "Do you have your passport?" "I was snorkeling, does it look like I have a passport somewhere". Finally they just returned him back to the pickup point and let him swim back home..<p>Too bad we are still running low on time, tomorrow we will be crossing the border to Israel and move up to Jerusalem. Crossing the border might turn out to be interesting, as my passport is basically a collection of stamps of troublemaker countries, and the Israeli border officials might have a few questions about it.. Russia, Ukraine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, UN Mission in Kosovo, Serbia & other Balkan countries.. :P<p>I will add a few underwater pictures of the coral reefs and fish later btw, I have to develop the film first. Probably I'll do that when we are back in Finland.<p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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