I got up around 8ish this morning and went to have breakfast, which seemed to take ages to arrive, even though it was only bread and beans. I then had to run around and find the hotel manager so I could get my bus ticket to get back to Cairo. I finally managed it and was transferred down to the bus stop by a really crazy driver who drove at the speed of light. Although, this was probably a good thing as I was running late. I got on the bus and we drove around th...

I got up this morning at 6:30am and had breakfast on the roof of the hostel. A great way to start an amazing day. I sat up there feeling smug and feeling like I owned the country, as I had been able to organise in ten minutes what we couldn't accomplish on the truck in a whole day. Don't get to smug yet, I thought, you have to get out there and back first. I went down to meet my transfer which was just a guy who got in a cab with me to the bus station and then s...

Its final. I'm jumping off the truck today, I'm not going to Alexandria again if I don't have to. Especially as I've prepaid all the activities on my Libya trip and have to go again anyway. So after four months, this is my last day on the truck. It was another day, spent being followed by the police and being angry that our desert Oasis experience had been taken away from us. Although everyone was a bit angry and frustrated, despite my need to make everyone laug...

It's been one of those days. It all started out so well, we drove out of Luxor around 7am and passed through a police check point about every 50km.We hit the desert and drove until it was time to have lunch. Then the real fun started. We stopped for lunch near an old Roman fort and I realised that the police had been following us for some time. After we had eaten a few of us climbed up to the fort. While up there another car materialised and a tall stocky man, wh...

We had an early start today to go see the temple of Karnak. We met our guide Tony and then walked to the temple as it is not very far from where we are staying. It was a really hazy horrible day and the haze seemed to trap the heat in, making it muggy as well as hot. We reached the temple and Tony showed us around, despite the fact that I had been here before I still followed the guide around and Tony actually had me reading some of the hieroglyphs off the walls...