At 4:30am I was driven though Cairo at night by a nice Saudi man named Ahmed. We drove through deserted downtown and the deserted slums and onto pyramids road. We then turned off and drove off the track to some stables and had some tea with the owner of one of them. I bought myself a 2.5 hour camel ride in the desert to watch the sunrise over Cairo. I got on the camel, which is always a little hair raising and we were off down the back streets. Medo was my guides name and of course he asked me all about where I was from and how much I was enjoying Egypt. We set off through many a deserted desert area and I saw wild jackals playing with local stray dogs. It started to get light and we trekked up and down the sand dunes.

We stopped for the longest time and I watched the glowing red sun appear over the dusty, dirty beautiful city of Cairo. It was truly amazing. I then had Medo take many a picture with me showing off with the Camel, I'm sure he was sick of my vanity by the time we got back.

I also had a few pictures taken with the horse Medo was riding before we set off again. We rode down some more dunes and around the fenced enclosure of the Giza pyramids, which could not be seen due to the mist.

Medo instructed me on how to drive the camel myself and pretty soon I became a natural, (if I do say so myself), camels are very easy to ride and I rode this one through a horses graveyard in the failing light of sunrise, which was especially eerie.

We finally got back to the stables, with me driving the whole way and I gave Medo a tip and went off to see the Giza pyramids.