LL and I were met by our guide Nourden who took us out to Safari Land. Here we road a quad bike, drove a dune buggy, road a camel, had lunch and then squished in a van for a bumpy, dusty erratic drive through the desert to a bedouin camp All a bit ho-hum for us after all the amazing stuff we have seen and the brilliant places we've stayed and the delightful people we've met, but glad I did the trip anyway. The others in the van were from the UK and this was ...

Time to move on, and this time we head off to Hurghada. This was not part of our original itinerary, and has been added in place of the White Desert and then Fayoum. We headed out of Luxor and travelled through rural communities, hurtling along at 130kph amidst cars, trucks and donkey carts. As we got into the desert area we drove along a new highway - at 80 because it was monitored by radar. Yep - go figure. Nothing makes a lot of sense here in Egypt!!! ...