I PROMISE WE ARE NOT PIKIES! 29 Mar 08 Day 28 Hun - Benghazi 920km I slept like a log and we were up and ready to go by 9am.This was our longest drive yet as we headed north to Gadaffi's home town, Surt, out of the desert and back to the rugged coast line. There was vast amounts of nothing again, with a flat horizon and dead straight road for miles. The only amusing thing was watching cars piled 3 times as high as themselves with all sorts of things from...

Thus 27 Mar 08 Day 26 Akakus Mountains - The Lakes Km The Guides have been doing some talking and are very concerned we aren't up to driving over the massive dunes to the lakes. The dunes around the lakes have been bothering me and Bruce so far has done a brilliant job driving in the sand, but we had hoped for a little more teaching from Masood, but with the language barrier this wasn't possible. They also operate in Africa style, not ever telling us the ...

Drive of Nothingness Sun 23 Mar 08 Day 22 Tripoli - Sabha 800km We left the hotel at about 9am after a nice breakfast of egg and cheese sandwich and nice coffee. Andy and Noeleen needed to get some Euros so we relaxed at the cars while they went on an unsuccessful Euro hunt. While we were waiting I had a chat to Rob which was nice and then we hit the long, long road to Sabha. Not much more to report on today. A few fuel stops, dead camels, dead bat eared...

SHEEP BRAAIS, MEDINAS & EL JEM COLISEUM Wed 12 Mar 2008 Day 11 Hammamet - Sfax - Gabes 210 Km Had a really good morning at the campsite today. Gave the landy a good check over, made a temporary repair to a small hole in the exhaust to the rear of the silencer and sorted all our cash and documents out.Only left the campsite at 12 but it was good to get all that sorted. It was a really hot morning too, the first time we have felt the African sun on thi...

TUNIS - VISA DENIALS & DISSAPOINTMENTS Fri 7 March 2008 Day 6 Tunis - Bizerte (north coast) 143Km What a day for disappointments. All was going well to start with, with a hot bath and good breakfast of cakes, egg, halva and hot chocolate. Checking our email at about 11 am we were suddenly hit with a shock as Bruce got an email from our Libyan guide, Hadi Baki. Something had happened between Libya and South Africa in the last few days and now they were...