We woke-up around 06:30, breakfast was at 07:15 and then at 08:00 we took the minibus to Wadi Qhada (or also called Qadi or Qidah) For the ones who wonder, a Wadi is a valley or ravine, bounded by relatively steep banks, which in the rainy season becomes a watercourse Details of the hike to come ...

On this post are gathered some maps of the areas and the routes we have been kayaking. The whole route we did, with the campsites we stayed at and other stuffs are gathered in a .kmz file that can be opened in Google Earth. Here are some screenshots of the route. Also, at the hotel, in the corridor, a map was framed. It was published by the UK Ministry of Defense in 1974. This map certainly comes from the expe...

We woke up with goats at our campsite. Some of us went to the water tanks to fill our bottles. For breakfast, there was still some pancake mix: yum yum! When we were about to leave some children from the village came to our campsite and helped the girls to drag their kayak to the water. And then, they raced with us on their small wooden boat! We left by along the rocky coast. And sin...

Around 04:45, the first prayer on the loudspeakers of the village woke us up! But we went back to sleep until around 06:30. M* recorded the prayer: // Sound to come Some of us went to the village to fill our bottles of fresh water: // Sound to come For breakfast, Marco had a surprise for us: pancakes! He had bought before leaving pancake mix in a very convenient bottle. It was great. It reminded us what we had when we did canoe trips in Canada! Meeting with resid...

We woke up with the sun and O* directly dived in the sea to wake up, later followed by B* and other members of the group. Thanks to the orientation of the campsite, we could avoid direct sun for breakfast and enjoy the all relative "freshness" of the morning. But once on the kayak, there was no wind at all, the sea was like a mirror and the sun was powerfully shining. In a word, it was hot! After some time of paddling, we stopped on a...