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[[Hitchhiking]] is possible, but not easy. There are a lot of taxi drivers all around which try to offer you there services. However you'll be allways always able to find some friendly bedouin Bedouin guys, police officers or internationals who do take you. Allways Always make sure by entering a car that you don't want to pay. 90% of cars/minibuses will stop and around 40-50% will agree to take you for free. "Leysa filoos" means "no money" in (broken) Egyptian Arabic.

A hitchhiker's biggest problem on the Sinai won't be hitching a free ride but rather the police, especially near touristy areas. Apparently, the police are tasked with ensuring all tourist operators and taxis are licensed and pay taxes for the privilege of taking foreigners (Egyptians hitch very commonly for little amounts of money), so they are not very happy to see a foreigner in regular Egyptians' cars. The best strategy to avoid trouble for you and your driver is to ask your driver to tell the police that you have no money and that he's only taking you to the nearest bus station. You could also ask your driver to drop you off just before a checkpoint and then just walk through and see what happens. It is quite easy to orientate navigate because there are not many roads. There is just this one road going South-West from Taba over Nuweiba, St. Catherine junction, Dahab junction to Sharm el Sheihk Sheikh and from their there North direction Cairo. On the main roads there are also bus connections. Between Taba and Sharm el Sheikh over Nuweiba and Dahab the bus goes twice a day. So if you don't get a ride at all you'll be able to take these busses buses (e.g. 30 LE Nuweiba-Dahab). There's a new Egyptian bus company, which has a pretty decent website which accepts foreign cards, called "GoBus" - they have 4-5 daily buses from Dahab to Cairo at around LE120-300 (depending on how luxurious the bus is), so you can use them as plan B or if the police prohibit you from hitchhiking.

'''By car::''' There are busses from [[Cairo]] to Sharm-el-Shekh and St. Catherine (around 50-70 LE one trip), also special offers like Dahab-[[Luxor]] etc., anyway best is over-night because over the day it is too hot and most of the buses don't have airconditioning. I have no experiences in hitchhiking this way. Most of it is lost desert. It doesn't seem like a good place. But maybe you are lucky and you find a truck-driver near Sharm who is going all the way. ''Anybody has experiences?''

'''From/To [[Israel]]:''' The Taba Border Crossing is today the only open border crossing between Israel and Egypt. It is easy to find a ride to the Taba junction (5 km away from the Taba Border Crossing), the rest you have to walk or take a taxi. If you arrive in Taba from Israel don't get confused from the taxi drivers who offer you their services or even lie and say there is no bus any more. There is always a bus at 15:00 going Taba-Nuweiba-Dahab-Sharm! If you are leaving to Israel you will find on the other site a city bus to Eilat. From the central bus station it is close to the main road heading up North to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem. '''You will have to pay an exit fee of 100 shekels to the Israelis, unless you hold a valid, printed booking to Movenpick, Hilton or Radisson Blu hotels in Taba - you can get a free booking through Booking.com, but keep in mind that the Israelis will check if you have a reservation directly with the hotel. Also, the Egyptians only issue Sinai-only stamps at this crossing free of charge, so if you want to go to Cairo, they'll make you pay $25 for a visa and anywhere from $100 for "visa support"(handwritten note from a "travel agent" without which they won't give you the full visa...''' You can avoid the whole visa nightmare by getting an Egyptian visa in advance (from an embassy/consulate) - either in Eilat (100 shekels, 2014) or in your home country - prices: in London (GBP20, November 2017), Schengen countries (EUR38, November 2017).