RELAXING AND TEMPLING ON THE NILE 15 April 08 Day 45 Kharga Oasis - Luxor (Rezeiky Camp) 341 km BRUCE: Got on the road at about 9.30am for the short hop to Luxor. On the way we saw the Austrian bikers again. They had stopped at an ambulance station and we joined them and were invited to stay for tea by the guys who work there. The ambulance driver had built this awesome sheesha pipe out of a glass jar but the tobacco was too strong for me to join them. After...

SEA SHELLS CAIRO SMELLS 10 April 08 Day 40 Giza - Wadi El Hittan 215 km BRUCE: Well all I can say is that it is good to be away from Cairo and on the road again. We had an early start at 6am and were on the road by 7:30am.We went to the pyramids first which is always an awesome sight. We found parking down a little side street and walked the rest of the way. Definitely time to leave Cairo as we found ourselves snapping at the guys who hassled us on the way u...

GIZA GEEZAS 5 April 08 Day 35 Alexandria - Giza (Salma Hotel Camping) 190km After another great breakfast we picked up our laundry from the lady and it was awesome to have all our clothes clean again. (Later we were not so chuffed as Bruce's favourite shirt never returned!) It took us ages to find an open internet café and eventually found a fast one where we updated our Libya blog. Paid for our parking and car wash (which was unwanted) and headed for C...

EGYPTIAN BORDER 2 April 08 Day 32 Libya Border - Mersa Matrouth 250km After a midnight wake up call from Se to chase away the 'wild dogs' that were surrounding our camp we got a good nights rest and after an awesome shower and coffee were good to go at 9am. It was a nervous day when you have a border crossing and today was no exception with a crossing into Egypt looming large! We made it through Libyan emigration in about 1 hour and said farewell to Ahmed an...

LIBYAN BORDER CROSSING & DRUG DEALERS Thurs 20 Mar 08 Day 19 Jerba - Tripoli, Libya I've had a 'bad toilet' day with some serious smells of urine reeking from holes in the floor. I don't recommend visiting a toilet at a border! The drive to the Tunisian border went well with us arriving at 12pm along with the craziest of Tunisian drivers. There were 6 rows of cars for a 3 lane crossing through border control. As we were patiently waiting, queue jum...