The overnight sleeper train was late leaving and very late arriving. Still it was very comfortable. It was exactly the same as the Russian sleeper trains. Luckily I had a cabin to myself for most of the way. I walked the length of the corniche this arvo looking for a felucca to go to Luxor next week. It is not looking too promising at the minute and the felucca sellers are all dodgy as. They keep offering me a "Nubian banana". I dunno what that is but they tend ...

This is a s*** website but I am stuck with it for this trip. I will type this one again. I braved the subway this morning. It was pretty easy til I got to Giza. Then I got picked up by a scammer. I have had every scam know tried on me and I got done twice today. You know you going to get done you just have to limit it. So the scammer lives in Sharm and is visiting his sister in the area. I'm OK to use him till I get to the ticket office then I will dump him. He ...

My flight from Lalibela was delayed by a couple of hours. My original plan was to go to Addis and get a room for few hours and come back to airport at 1am for my flight. With the late flight I decided to hang around at airport. I know the most boring airport in the world now. I arrived in Cairo at 6.30 in the morning and it is 28deg and predicted to get to 38. Lovin it. I found a hotel and they have room but not now so I left my bag and went to explore. I'm in t...