Thank God we left Al Bayda today, one more afternoon of watching their one channel in English and eating junk food in my hotel room and I think I would have jumped off the balcony. We had a few stops today, the first of which was 45 minutes from Al Bayda, it was a very small site called Slanta, it was behind a locked fence and was not even as big as the area covered by my parents garden shed. The policeman who is travelling with us climbed over the gate and unlo...

For the first time in what seems like ages I didn't have to pack up my bag this morning. We had a 9am start and with the one hour time difference could not managed to sleep in past 7:30am. I had a leisurely breakfast and got into the bus. We drove to the site of Cyrene which is a Greek settlement dating back to 700BC. We visited the museum first and I stood there being annoyed that we were forced to listen to a guide blathering on about crap. I, in fact spent mo...

Oh my God!I am in guided tour hell, if only there was another way to see this country.I am staying in beautiful hotels, have to follow a guide around everywhere, have guides at all the sites, included meals and an air conditioned bus.I would trade it all in for bush camping in the desert, cooking my own food, getting lost everywhere I go, good company and most of all, a hot, noisy, bumpy truck! Our first stop this morning was more war cemetaries, we went to a ...

I left Egypt today for my trip into Libya.We drove for about two hours to the border at Sallum and had to go through departure formalities.It seemed to take forever to get out of Egypt and it worried me that if it was this difficult to get out of Egypt, how difficult was it going to be to get into Libya.As it turns out it only took us about half an hour to go through arrival formalities on the other side and our new guide Tarik handled most of it for us. The o...