Today I met up with Alex, my Uni friend from Oz outside the Cairo museum. She met me with her holiday romance, Kurt from Belgium. How cute! I of course proceeded to give her s*** about that all day, how hypocritical of me! We decided to go to Old Cairo to see all the Coptic monuments. I decided we should get the train to do this, which is really easy, when you know what you're doing. We visited the Church of St George and the Hanging Church, places I had already...

I made it back to Cairo after a long struggle with the train. Someone is definitely watching out for me I think. I managed to get myself to the station, but that's where the easy part stops. I got there and this voice just said to me "Come on, Let's get the train together". His name was Madi, a nice young guy from Libya, who thankfully spoke Arabic. We got to the ticket window and there were no tickets left, supposedly. Madi had to try to haggle with th...

Well I'm in Alexandria now and after the hassle I've had, I've decided to leave. Well that's not entirely true. Let me see, where oh where do I begin, ah yes. It all began on a beautiful spring day in Dahab.... my driver from Sharm el Sheikh arrived without his taxi, instead he has brought a normal car. This would have been ok, except for the fact that in Sinai, there are security checks every 100km and Egyptians found with foreigners in their cars are put throug...

Wrap Up - Dahab The Town between the Sea and the desert. This is a nice place but it's not Sharm, but then again I don't think anything's like Sharm.This is a small town mostly populated by cats, restaurant owners and scuba divers. There seems to be more hassle here than in Sharm, but there aren't as many tourists, so they haven't learnt that hassling won't get them a sale, where as in Sharm there are hundreds. The tours here are very much for people who are ...

Today I opted to go to the coloured Canyon near Nuwieba. I booked the tour the day before, but little did I know it was going to be let by Bedouins. We drove out of Dahab for about an hour and then all of a sudden went off the road into the desert. We were in the back of a Toyota Land Cruiser and this was a real desert safari. We drove off road through the desert for about an hour. It was very bumpy and the Arab driving it drove like a maniac. He was not the onl...