Yes - you all guessed right (apart from Marian and Andy who we had led to believe that we were off to Mozambique!) - We're in Egypt!!

We thought that seeing the pyramids and sphinx, cruising the Nile and diving in the Red Sea would make a fitting end to project Fogg - not to mention the un-missable opportunity to surprise Marian (Graham's Mum) whilst holidaying in Sharm El-Sheik to celebrate her 50th birthday!

Our flight from India via Bahrain came into Cairo where we stayed just long enough to source our onward bus tickets. As this left us with one free day we took the opportunity to visit the Egyptian museum and book a friendly looking driver to take us around the pyramid sights when we returned a few days later.

After the long flights we were also looking forward to a good nights sleep but somehow, yet again, we managed to book a hostel that is built on top of enormous speakers calling people to prayer at 4.30am at around 2 million decibels!

The Egyptian museum is incredible. As well as the famous Tutankhamun tomb pieces, the huge building is full from floor to ceiling of artefacts that are incomprehensibly ancient and totally priceless. Based on content alone it surely has to be the most amazing museum in the world. What is a shame is that the place is pretty badly laid out and most of the pieces are stuffed into cabinets that look as old as the contents! Most items are barely labelled let alone explained so, unless you are an expert Egyptologist (which funnily enough we are not!) you are left guessing most of the time.

Although it is amazing to see the contents of the excavated tombs, burial treasures and ornate sarcophagi (of which there are more on display than you would imagine ever existed - never mind intact!) in many ways we also found it a real shame. Having clearly believed so deeply in preparing themselves in this way for the afterlife - and going to so much effort to do so, it seems sad that the tombs are now broken up and strewn around a museum for all to see. This is particularly true of the royal mummies themselves. These are removed from their sarcophagi and on full display - pretty well preserved considering they are over 3,000 years old!

It was definitely well worth the visit though and once all of the pieces are moved to a new, modern, purpose built museum in 2009 a visit will probably be worth the air fare to Egypt alone.

Next stop, the important and very exciting mission of tracking down a real, live and younger by 2,950 years, mummy! (Come on - you can't pass up that kind of cheesy pun opportunity!!)