Before you think that I miraculously left Ethiopia and suddenly appeared in the world of Lord of the Rings, forget it; I am still in Ethiopia! A bigish city/town with an ancient monolithic church. Although, I’m yet to explore it. So after my eager attempt to write something about Ethiopia the other night, I woke [...]
Hi there! Well, since my last posting, we discovered that Kim’s wrist was in fact fractured. Our very kind host in Khartoum (Abdelsalam a.k.a. “Mr. President“) is very well connected and one of his friends was a doctor; who just happened to be in the workshop when we turned up, he quickly identified from the [...]
Heya! It’s proving harder and harder to get online now, apologies for the long wait! Well we decided to take the desert route to Abu Hamed from Wadi-halfa with 300+ kilometers of sand tracks across the desert. The tracks follow a disused railway and I wasn’t wild about the idea with the prospect of carrying [...]
I’m very pleased to tell you that I’m finally in Sudan, the standard of living has gone down, the cost of living has gone up.. but finally we’re not longer in Egypt… and that is a good thing! Back-tracking a week; we left Luxor on Thursday and arrived in Aswan a few hours later, and [...]
So it’s my great news to tell you that I’ve now arrived at Luxor; all right, 2 days ago… my first impression whilst riding down the Neil Nile from Qina was: “Wow! Egypt has greenery!!”. However, going for a leisurely walk later, after pitching up at our campsite, and being harassed by every Egyptian we crossed paths [...]
So yesterday we arrived in Hughada around midday, we had set off at 7am as mentioned in the previous post. (I’ve written two posts if you haven’t noticed). (Campsite photo belongs to: Matt & Kim) Our ride down the coast, was somewhat boring, but at the same time had it’s perks: we pulled over for [...]
So since Cairo, we (the famous 6 of us), set off at 10am rode up to Ismalia to see the Suez Canal, spent a good while looking for a view point. Eventually found something similar and settled for it. We later rode on south until dark (just past Suez) and then found somewhere to camp. [...]
Hi all, I’ve now been in Cairo for 7 days!!! I have managed to get 1 visa. Woot! The bad news: tomorrow is some holiday and the Ethiopian embassy wont be open until Thursday. However, the visas will not be processed until after the weekend (keep in mind Arabic weekends start Friday and end Saturday), [...]
So, yesterday we (6 of us: Matt & Kim, Craig, Cam, Ed and I) went on a rollercoast ride with a Egyptian named Ali, who took us to his home village to meet his wife, eat his food and give us a closed-doors tour of the step pyramids at Saqqara (which are now not open [...]
So today, Craig and I went off to see the sphinx and ended up seeing the pyramids… and the sphinx… OK it cost me a little more than I wanted to part with, but I guess it’s not everyday you get to ride a camel in the desert, haggle with Egyptians over things you DO [...]
