Dahab - 10 April Day 13 We travelled from Cairo, under the suez canal and into the Sinnai peninsula. We were somewhat in a convoy from the first check point with many other trucks around us. Sinnai peninsula is on the Australian governments website as a 'Do not travel' zone after incidents of kidnapping. Well worst case scenario we might get to be on an episode of 'Banged up Abroad'! Around us the land is mountainous and desert conditions bu...

Cairo again - 9 April Day 12 Both Susie and I woke up quite tired with all the late nights and early starts catching up with us. Susie had been in a lot of pain the previous evening with her first night sleeping on her bruises after the 'donkey incident'! We went down to meet the group and to find out if it was safe to go to the museum which was a block from Tahir Square ... since Friday we'd seen a lot of scenes on tv of the protests in Cairo ... mostly...

Luxor - 7 April Day 10 In luxor we stayed at the Queens Valley Hotel. It was a very tourist orientated city and enjoyed seeing Luxor temple in the centre of town as you walked about. We went to grab a takeaway lunch at 'Snack Time'. I ordered a very tasty chicken shawarma that I enjoyed in the back of the horse & carriage that we took to get to Karnak Temple. Karnak temple was very large and beautiful with an area of huge columns supporting th...

Luxor - 7 April Day 10 In luxor we stayed at the Queens Valley Hotel. It was a very tourist orientated city and enjoyed seeing Luxor temple in the centre of town as you walked about. We went to grab a takeaway lunch at 'Snack Time'. I ordered a very tasty chicken shawarma that I enjoyed in the back of the horse & carriage that we took to get to Karnak Temple. Karnak temple was very large and beautiful with an area of huge columns supporting th...

The felucca was a sailing boat with a deck covered in a mattress and pillows. It had a covering about a meter above the mattress and a curtain they'd pull down around the sides overnight. The 13 of us fit there comfortably which was lucky as this was also where we slept. There was another boat travelling with us that would prepare our food and that had toilets with showers above them. We could call that when we needed but swam in the nile the 2nd day rather th...