Day 10 - No shower.Day 11 - Had best shower of my life. We spent until 12pm today in the style of the last two days, being hot and tired and hanging around in cafes.At 12pm we packed up the truck and drove it down to the ferry landing, we waited around for two hours before being allowed onto the ferry.The truck is going separately on a barge, so Dave went off to organise that and we all boarded the ferry.i remember walking towards it, thinking, this will take ...

Day 8 - No shower. Siobhan and I washed each other's hair in a bucket.Poured water over myself with a jug, It took us about two hours to drive from our bush camp in Arbi to Wadi Halfa and our hotel.Some of us dared to hope for a proper shower, some for air conditioning…I allowed myself to hope for nothing…and I was still disappointed. We arrived at hotel Defintood, which was literally made from mud brick, with palm a palm frond ceiling.The walls inside we...

Day 7 - No shower. Swam in the Nile. We visited the temple of Soleb, built by Amenhotep III this morning before it got too hot.We got back in the boat and sailed across the Nile and climbed up to the temple.We had the whole place to ourselves and just sat around in the temple chatting and answering peoples questions.I managed to find the relief of the king worshipping himself as a god and told the group to expect even grander things from Egypt. I think today,...

Day 6 - No shower.Swam in the Nile. We left our bush camp quite late and headed off to a site called Deffufa, I had no idea what this site was, but I suspected it was ancient Kerma, the old Nubian capital, disguised under an Arabic name.we had to drive through a few small villages to find it and through a lot of palms.I'm surprised we found it at all.I was very grateful to Dave and Sarah for persevering with it, because as it turned out, I was right, it was an...

Day 5 - No shower.Got hosed down by some locals using a petrol water pump, fully clothed by the Nile.Unfortunately, soap was not involved. We got up early in an effort to avoid the heat today and trooped off to Gebel Barkal.We visited the temple first which was locked, but still pretty amazing from the outside.I walked around to the front of the temple and wandered through it from the entrance, as it was supposed to be seen in ancient times. I did a lap aroun...