Bus to Red Sea Resort Town Hurghada | Egypt Travel Blog: Day 6 (Part 50) 05D19

5-Hour Bus Ride to Hurghada | Arriving at the Caves Beach Resort

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After boarding the bus, I noticed lots of new faces. Unlike before, this time the bus was full. It looked like 2 other tour groups had boarded with us.

At first, we passed rural landscapes with some green crops and trees. Then a little later the scenes all changed to desert and mountains. I saw big towers carrying electricity in the middle of the desert.

It felt like we were going to another world on this road cutting through the middle of the desert. I saw that most people on the bus had fallen asleep, but I didn’t want to miss this unique road trip experience.

We had a stopover at a service station in the middle of nowhere. I saw some tribal women wearing black hijabs covering their whole body except their eyes standing with their donkeys. The donkeys were dressed up and there were baby goats sitting on top of the donkeys.

Our tour guide told us they came from faraway villages to make some money by giving tourists photo opportunities with them and their goats and donkeys. I was shocked at how far I imagined they came from just to make a little money. I appreciated their hard-working spirit.

The service station was like a complex, with stores selling a variety of items and souvenirs. I didn’t find fresh coffee or tea, so I settled for a coffee from a vending machine costing 50 LE (close to $4 CAD), which was too expensive for a terrible cup of coffee.

We had another 3 hours on the bus before reaching Hurghada.