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...

I woke up at 7:45 this morning only because I needed the toilet, and realised we never got our 7:30 wake up call!! So I woke Darren and we got up, packed and went downstairs for breakfast. Breakfast was a very disappointing mix of meats, cheeses, stale bread, stale cereal and too-strong black tea. When we told Ramzy about our lack of wake up call, he went and asked reception, and apparently they said our phone didn't work and the bellman was just about to go wake...

This morning we got up at 4.30, packed our bags and headed down stairs. The receptionist called a cab for us, which showed up very quickly, then we got in and headed out to the airport. This airport had a security check before we even got inside the building, which is something I've never seen before, then we went and checked in. We got our boarding passes then looked through a couple of souvenir shops and found a sticker for the guitar, then went through a passp...