according to the Camp David treaty, the daily life in Dahab changed
dramatically. All supplies had to be organized now from the distant Cairo,
some 600 Km away. The local hippie community had vanished and the
bedouin village became a ghost town, kept alive only by the bedouins and
a few travelers, that found the way to Dahab from the distant Kairo.
government started with the construction of the nonexistent infrastructure
in South Sinai. A new power house in Dahab, built in 1989, supplied now
electricity to the first houses, camps, coffee shops, supermarkets and
restaurants. Also the first privately owned Dive shops like Inmo and
Nesima started to operate in this time.
"must go" for travelers. Over the past few years a new Bedouin Village has
come into existence, called Masbat now, complete with promenade, hotels
with pools, restaurants, coffee shops, supermarkets, diving centers and
pizzerias. Even banks and internet-cafes, travel agencies and car rental
are now a very common thing in Dahab.
