We met up with our friends again at Adam's Camp in Aswan and had another traditional Egyptian dinner in camp that night. The next day we all went together to the Nile Shipping Co to arrange our ferry to Sudan. The others had done their paperwork the day before so knew the procedure and thankfully they stayed with us the whole day and helped us with the typical Egyptian complicated process. First we arranged a place on the ferry and then went to what we think w...

The campsite Reizyky in LUxor was excellent. We met a South African couple there doing the same journey as us only on Honda 250 c.c.Trial bikes an massive task. They left the next morning to travel to Aswan and get their paperwork sorted out for the ferry. We spent a whole day cleaning the truck, getting washing done and using the internet as this was our last chance before Sudan and we wanted everything washed, cleaned and ready as once we hit Sudan we will h...

We returned to Cairo, followed our GPS co-oridnates and eventually found that the road to the Western Desert was the 6th October road which we had been told many times only led to 6th October City. After by-passing 6th October City the road eventually just turned into the desert highway and fully tarmaced two lane highway straight out into desert which had taken us 24 hours to find.!! Through the desert the temperature was a steady 34 degrees and the road was s...

We arrived in Cairo at around 12.00 a.m. and drove straight through the city to the Nile. We started to look for a hotel and we never got anything until 5.30 p.m. Cairo is the busiest, noisiest city we have ever been to. All the hotels were full we drove all over the place. The traffic is horrendous. Nobody stops at red lights they just continue going through until the traffic coming the other way forces its way across and then visa versa. Trying to walk across t...

We headed back up the coast turning inland through the desert to St Katherine's Monestry tucked in the barren valley at the foot of Mount Sinai which has been a place of pilgrimage since the 4th century built by the side of what is believed to be the burning bush where God spoke to Moses. Today St. Katherines is considered to be one of the oldest continually functioning monastic communities in the world. Not a great deal of the monestry is open to be public and...