I spent most of today in the Souq in the Old Medina. It was a really nice day. I wanted to get a lamp and a rug, but both were really overpriced so I just ended up getting the rug, which was the cheaper of the two and the lesser of two evils. I sat and chatted with a nice Libyan man outside a shop for about an hour. He didn't want anything from me, just that I send him a postcard from Australia. It was lovely to chat to him and it gave me a great insight as to h...

This is my last day on a tour for the whole trip! Can't wait to get out on my own, its going to be awesome. Can't wait to see Tim and Fiona and then Mum and Dad. Today we drove about an hour out of Tripoli to the site of Sabratha. We had the same guide as yesterday, who, shock horror I don't actually mind, because he doesn't force people to follow him around. We went and had a look in the museum first and saw a huge mosaic depicting the tree of life, that was f...

We started today with a visit to the museum of Tripoli. We had to have a guide yet again, but this time it was probably a good thing as all the labels on everything are in Arabic. We saw some wonderful mosaics, made with tiny tiles and some magnificent statues from Leptis Magna. There was one Greek statue of Athena, which was completely intact. She even had her little owl on her arm. The guide pointed to the cape she was wearing and asked if any of us could ident...

Redemption. That's the word for today, and today was awesome. Today we visited Leptis Magna, which was outstanding, one of the most amazing ancient sites I have ever visited. We started at the circus, which was the ancient chariot race track, Tarek our tour leader pointed out how to get down to the track and walk into the amphitheatre along the triumvural way, just as the victors would have done. The amphitheatre, was the most impressive I've ever seen, and I'v...

900km, brutal! We drove the whole Gulf of Sirt today and it was just a pretty long drive day. I've had interesting drive days before, but that was on the truck with a bunch of fun people, it's a little different now. We left early, well early for this tour, 7:30am has become early. We had a few stops along the way and stopped for lunch for about 45 minutes. It was a scorching hot day and during one of the stops our tour leader said to me, "Is Australia this...