Egypt: Day Twelve

Day 12: SCUBA DIVING!!!! We were so excited! The company picked us up at the hostel at 8:30 and as we were leaving Hisan, the guy who picked us up the previous night and was the owner of the hostel, told us he would make us an really good Egyptian dinner that night when we got back. So we headed to the boat, got on and filled out or information and then went up to the bow to get some sun. This trip was both a scuba diving and snorkeling trip so Ish and Michaela decided to snorkel and Catherine, Joy and I went scuba diving. When it came time to go out in the water they got us in our wet suits, goggles, flippers, weights, and air tanks and flopped us right into the water. We each had a guide that took us down. I can’t even explain how amazing this was. The whole breathing underwater took a couple minutes to get used to, but it was so worth it. They then took our pictures under water and then we swam around for while.

Then we went back up to the boat and had lunch. After lunch we soaked up some more sun before round two of scuba diving. The whole day was sooo great. The crew absolutely loved us (of course in a creepy nice way)…it was pretty evident that they don’t usually get four 20 year old American girls on their boat, but they were all very nice and helpful. After a long day in the sun we went back to the hostel to shower and rest before our meal that Hisan said he would make for us. Of course it was absolutely delicious. After that since we had a while until we had to go to the bus station for our bus, Hisan said we would show us the way to this really nice restaurant/bar that we could kill some time at. So the 5 of us stayed there for awhile, had some drinks and Shesha and talked. Then Hisan came back and said he would walk us around downtown Horgada if we wanted. Of course we wanted to do that so we went and walked around for about another hour or so.

All of the shops were still open and the streets had a lot of people still in them. Then Hisan took us to a fresh juice shop and treated us to fresh mango and sugar cane juice. He was soo very nice to us! We then went back to the hostel and waited until it was time to head to the bus station for our overnight bus. Hisan then took us there and saw us off. We tried giving him a very good tip for doing all he did for us, but he wouldn’t take it…he said it’s never about money, it is about meeting new people and making friends. We then hopped on our 1am bus and hit the road to Cairo.