Hello everyone! So I last left you in Aswan, on our way to Abu Simbel. We went there in the middle of the night to see sun rise on the statues inside - after a 3 hour ride in military convoy, we finally arrived. The actual experience of seeing the statues at sunrise was really disappointing, but I actually managed to extract an apology from an Egyptian man (no mean feat I must add!). The actual statue itself was beautiful, as was the artwork inside and as it w...

Cairo - how to describe it…utter chaos!! I have never seen such bad traffic congestion, it took us 3 hours to leave Cairo a couple of days ago! Not only is there awful congestion, but the drivers are a nightmare. To walk across the road is to risk your life, even being in a car is scary! Even though there are lanes and traffic lights, everyone ignores them, driving in-between lanes and rather than signalling to move, they just beep their horns, its madness. W...