Double Well
While others are wondering about hidden secrets around South Sinai, Cadence Seekers members have already experienced them…
This place being one of the biggest Sinai mysteries, had our seven participants eager to know what’s behind it, what the mountains behind Aqaba’s fabulous coast are hiding…
An entire way of life in a hidden bedouin valley that only a few have heard about, and even fewer have visited.
Zurayr or Seghir’s bedouin village doesn’t have a mobile signal, only recently got electricity, and is living on the water wells that make the place livable, with one school in the middle of the village, mostly there are no other services or even where to buy groceries, except for a small market out of the house belonging to the bedouin who lives there.
After arriving to the village we stayed in one of the bedouin houses, the owner of which served us a nice breakfast. We asked about the people who live there, about their professions or what they are doing, and the Beduin told us that they depend on several water wells for agriculture.
They also rely on Abu Galum’s resources, as well, they own camps there and either rent them out or accommodate visitors there, or rarely in Seghir’s, like in our case, in addition to the driving services they provide.
As planned, we visited the village about 3 days after the rain, and the place had amazing waterfalls with drinkable water resulting from the rainfall, and fabulous natural pools as you can see in the photos. After that, we visited Seghir’s canyon and wrapped up to head to our next destination, Oqda’s well.
After reaching our camels, we loaded our luggage on them and then started hiking from the nearest point to Oqda’s well, we passed another amazing huge rain pool with a waterfall that was still filling it with really cold water, but that, of course, didn’t prevent us from taking our clothes off and jumping in for a few minutes, looking for each other’s hands to get out, because of it’s slippery mud.
Once we arrived at Oqda, we started collecting some firewood for our barbecue, then pitched our tents for the night. Around the night fire, we had our dinner and smores, laughed and sang and it was one of the most beautiful nights we ever spent in the mountains.
On the second day, after having our breakfast, we started our hike back to Abu Galum. After about 11km and 2:30 hours, we arrived in time for lunch, a refreshing dip, and snorkeling, then took the boat back to our beloved Dahab.
