By the end of this year, Abbas told me encouraging news:

By the end of this year, Abbas told me encouraging news: the Egyptian authorities, realizing the tourist potential of the Sinai, eased restrictions. Some tourism companies are planning to tour by helicopter, and the permit can be obtained. Soon, he confirmed that it is possible to hire a private helicopter. By that time, Israel entered into a peace treaty with Jordan, and Abbas, the idea: let's take a "tour of peace" on the route of Israel - Egypt - Jordan (from the middle of the Sinai Peninsula). I liked this idea: in Jordan, there are places that I really would like to explore, such as Mount Nebo, where Moses died, or the place where the prophet Elijah ascended into heaven. In addition, there is Peter and Jerash, Abbas added. We have begun to develop a route. 
If you list all the places to visit - especially the one who first appeared in these countries - plus the special places that I have chosen, plus a flight by helicopter, the duration of the expedition were obtained simply unimaginable. While agreeing with me that Israel, with its numerous archaeological and religious monuments deserves a separate visit, Abbas has limited "tour of peace" Egypt, Sinai and Jordan. In designing the route remained the main issue: how to fly a helicopter? 
Abbas said that can arrange helicopter from Taba - Hotel "Hilton" in Taba was a helicopter pad. 
In the town of Taba to the magnificent sandy beach, located on the shores of the Gulf of Eilat (it is also called the Gulf of Aqaba) to the south of Eilat, Israelis built the hotel. He was part of a tourist complex that includes a variety of entertainment and attractions - special dock for vessels with a glass bottom, a sports club, underwater observatory and aquarium - which became the basis of the magnificent landscapes of the Gulf, coral reefs and colorful fish the Red Sea. After signing a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the Egyptians began to argue that the boundary runs to the south, not north of the hotel, so the hotel belongs to Egypt. After years of disputes, negotiations and compromises proposed, during which both sides presented the old Turkish and English maps, an international tribunal ruled in favor of Egypt. The Egyptians, in turn, left the hotel in the "Hilton".