There are many trails leading west from Dahab City to the wadi that
contains the cache. To minimize the necessity to traverse a
number of steep ridgelines approach directly from the east.
This eastern approach provides light hiking and includes an
easy 10-meter scramble below the cache viewpoint. Sturdy
trekking sandals or tennis shoes would be the minimum recommend
footwear. Add geocaching to the long list of activities to choose
from during a Dahab experience! Be it windsurfing, kite boarding,
diving, snorkeling, off-road driving, rock climbing, kite flying,
canyon hiking, water-skiing, sand boarding or now geocaching, Dahab
has it all.
Dahab Bay with its laid-back rows of restaurants and shops is
just south of the Bedouin village known as Assalah. The “city” of
Dahab lies another 2 1/2 km south of Dahab Bay along the northern
edge of a well-used water sports bay. The cache is within 2 km of
the Swiss Inn Beach Resort located in the Israeli-built Dahab
City.
In Arabic dahab means “gold.” The cache site is a nice location
to bathe yourself in the gold hues of the sunrise as it strikes the
rugged mountains on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
Similarly, the site allows a view of the reddish gold sunsets
striking the rugged coastline of Saudi Arabia just 22 km across the
Gulf of Aqaba.
For three consecutive mornings, the attempt to reach the summit
of the prominent peak just southwest of the cache site failed. Each
day's efforts inadvertently led to this comfortable and rare
tabletop viewpoint and thus Dahab 01.