Day 10: Dahab

We spent the day lounging on the beach pods at Le Meridien. We chose to stay at the Le Meridien based on trip advisor reviews that spoke of a reef directly off the hotel beach. The reef did not disappoint! We snorkeled several times during the day and saw lots of pretty coral and fish, including a beautiful (and poisonous) lion fish! And Paul saw an eel and stone fish later in the day! I had given up on snorkeling by the late afternoon and was content reading my book and looking out across the water at our view of Saudi Arabia, although I was a little sad to have missed the eel and stone fish.
View of the hotel from the beach.
The view of the beach from our room.
Camels strolling the beach.
Paul humoring me with a picture of the beach pods.
Relaxing in a beach pod with juice.
Paul heading out to snorkel.
He got to be a snorkeling machine!

After we rinsed off the extremely salty water, we headed over to one of the hotel restaurants at what we thought was 7:15 and were told that the restaurant did not open until 6:30. For more than a day we had been operating on Jordanian time and finally figured out that Egyptian time was an hour different! Again, I blame Lonely Planet, which specifically told us that Jordan and Egypt are in the same time zone. Anyway, we had a lovely dinner at the Asian inspired restaurant at the hotel when it opened. The food was great and we looked out over the pretty shimmering water under the light of the full moon.