On the 206th day, I left for Egypt and parted ways with my sister, who would return to Indonesia.
We both went to the North Bus Terminal in Amman. I arrived at the JET bus office at 10 a.m. when the bus almost departed. Luckily, the bus driver waited for me to buy a ticket first. The ticket price was 10 dinars to Aqaba.
The bus took 5 hours to Aqaba, driving along the road that I traveled before. Only after arriving in Aqaba did I look for ferry information. The ferry would depart that evening, so I quickly bought the ticket so I did not need to stay overnight in Aqaba, Jordan, which was much more expensive than in Egypt.
The port was 15 km south. There was no public transport to reach it. Luckily, I got a ride. I was dropped off at the container port and continued walking 3 km to the ferry port.
I paid the Exit Tax of 10 dinars with my last dinar. I hitchhiked earlier to avoid withdrawing Jordan cash again.
After passing through Jordanian immigration and getting an exit stamp, I waited until I was directed to board the ship at 9:20 p.m.. The boat ticket to Nuweiba cost $80, which I bought in advance at the JETT Bus Aqaba office.
On the ship, passengers needed to store their large bags in a giant container provided. Then we went upstairs and queued for passport stamps. The AB Maritime ship belonged to Egypt and had an immigration desk. The officer held my passport because I did not have a visa yet. Fortunately, as an Indonesian citizen, I could apply for a visa on arrival because I had a US visa.
The ship left Aqaba at 10 p.m. The seats were comfortable, befitting the expensive ticket price.
On the upper deck, there were benches to enjoy the night view. As the ship crossed the Red Sea at the Gulf of Aqaba, I could see the Jordan-Saudi Arabia border I had crossed two weeks earlier towards the east.
Upon arrival in Nuweiba, Sinai Peninsula, three other foreigners and I were taken by the immigration officers to process our visas. Each of us only needed to pay $25 for the visa. It did not take long to get the visa. The officer directed us to cheap accommodation near the port and we slept there.
Tomorrow, I will see Nuweiba and take the night bus to Cairo.
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Stage 1 Route - Sumatra (DONE!):
Jakarta - Bandar Lampung - Baturaja - Lahat - Pagar Alam - Bengkulu - Lebong Tandai - Kerinci - Jambi - Kuala Tungkal - Batam - Johor Bahru
Stage 2 Route - ASEAN Mainland (DONE!):
Johor Bahru - Kuala Tahan - Kota Bharu - Su-Ngai Kolok - Nakhon Si Thammarat - Chaiya - Nakhon Pathom - Bangkok - Nakhon Ratchasima - Phimai - Nong Khai - Vientiane - Vang Vieng - Luang Prabang - Chiang Rai - Chiang Mai - Pai - Chiang Mai - Chiang Rai - Boten - Kunming, China
Stage 3 Route - China (DONE!):
Kunming - Dali - Lijiang - Shangri-La - Shambala - Litang - Chengdu - Leshan - Chengdu - Xi'an - Zhangye - Jiayuguan - Dunhuang - Turpan - Urumqi - Almaty, Kazakhstan
Stage 4 Route - Central Asia (DONE!):
Almaty - Shymkent - Tashkent - Nukus - Muynak - Turtkul - Khiva - Bukhara - Samarkand - Tashkent - Khujand - Fann Mountains - Dushanbe - Kunduz, Afghanistan
Stage 5 Route - Afghanistan (DONE!):
Kunduz - Samangan - Mazar-i-Sharif - Balkh - Kabul - Bamiyan - Band-e Amir - Yakawlang - Lal - Chagcharan - Herat - Mashhad, Iran
Stage 6 Route - Iran (DONE):
Mashhad - Tehran - Isfahan - Persepolis - Shiraz - Ahvaz - Shalamcheh Border - Shushtar - Shush - Bandar Abbas - Sharjah, UAE
Stage 7 Route (DONE) - Arabian Peninsula:
Sharjah - Dubai - Abu Dhabi - Riyadh - Jeddah - Madinah - AlUla - Hegra - Tabuk - Haql - Aqaba, Jordan
Stage 8 Route - Jordan and Egypt:
Aqaba - Wadi Rum - Petra - Amman - Jerash - Mount Nebo - Madaba - Dead Sea - Nuweiba - Giza - Cairo - Saqqara
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Music Credits:
And Awaken - Stings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/....
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Chapters:
00:00 Prologue
01:36 JETT Bus from Amman to Aqaba
04:17 Buying AB Maritime Ticket and Getting to the Port
10:42 Boarding the Ship and Crossing the Red Sea
16:19 Arriving in Nuweiba
Негізгі бет Jago 329| Journey to Egypt with AB Maritime Ferry: Aqaba (Jordan) - Nuweiba (Egypt)
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