Dahab

He calls it the fourth space.

He points to Dahab, Egypt, a notorious backpacker sequel that he actually visits much later in his journey.

Right.

The fourth space is what happens when that unsustainable liminal space becomes permanent.

A traveler gets stuck in Dahab, sinking into the routine, but eventually they get a job working as a scuba diving instructor.

Suddenly, the non-reality has an income.

It becomes sustainable.

where were you

I was in Dahab at the Blue Hole.

It's basically a hole in the reef that goes down to about, I don't know, 90 metres or something.

And so it's

All right, let's get into today's stories.

On April 28, 2000, a 24-year-old named Yuri Lipski was standing in front of a cafe in Dahab, Egypt overlooking the Red Sea.

He had traveled all the way to the Sinai Peninsula from Moscow in order to film himself swimming through the arch, but now it was looking like that probably wasn't going to happen.

The arch is an 85-foot-long underwater tunnel that connects a massive sinkhole right on Dahab's shoreline called the Blue Hole, to the Red Sea.

To get to the arch, you need to enter the Blue Hole directly and descend straight down 181 feet, where you'll reach the top of the tunnel on the northeast side.

But there's a catch.

When I first learned to scuba, it was pretty incredible.

Off Dahab in the Red Sea.

Nice.

Red Sea, the colours, the coral colours in the Red Sea are just so incredible.

Yeah.

We went to a place called Dahab, which is like...

Egypt overlooking the Red Sea into Saudi Arabia.

Oh my God.

Actually, we had a gay experience in Egypt once.

My brother and I went to a place called Dahab in Egypt and there was a kid and my brother.

I hate to say this.

You probably she's probably going to roll.

Love to have you on board.

That origin story of you being in Dahab, Egypt, first hearing that Massive Attack tune.

Love that.

Shame, shame, you have

So if you look at the FCDO's entry requirements, they explain it in one paragraph.

If you arrive by air to Sharm El-Sheikh, and you plan to stay for less than 15 days at resorts in Sharm, Dahab, Nuweiba or Taba, you do not need a visa.

You simply get a free entry permission stamp when you land.

Which is great, free entry.

Okay.

Simple enough.

But if you type Sinai, Sharm, or Dahab into that site's own search function, it returns absolutely nothing.

Nothing.