So we received our wake up call at 3am this morning, got ready, grabbed our pillows and met everyone in the lobby before heading out to the van. We drove just down the road where we met a bunch of policemen who were organising our convoy that morning. A polceman joined us in our van and we started on the three hour trip to Abu Simbel. The journey was very slightly better with pillows on board, but still ridiculously bumpy enough for us to get hardly any sleep. I ...

After a few rest stops here and there (and some disgusting toilets!) we woke up to the van stopped and a whole lot of men outside (some with guns) all yelling at each other! Apparently we had stopped to find some petrol, and ended up having to buy some on the black market! So Ramzy and our driver were out negotiating with them for a while, then when they got back in we drove down some creepy streets where there was a pack of possibly stray dogs hanging around and...