Mike and Bonny in Africa
Our latest 5 diary entries
| 2nd Oct 2008 - 9th Oct 2008 | ||||
| Back in Cairo | ||||
| And so it was back to Cairo to be a tourist and hopefully get a Libyan visa. We started out at the Giza Pyramids. Fabulous! The Sphinx is smaller in real life and it definitely starting to show sig... | ||||
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| 1st Oct 2008 | ||||
| St Catherine Monasery | ||||
| On the way back to Cairo we stopped at Mount Sinai and the St Catherine Monastery. This is where Moses saw the burning bush and was given the Ten Commandments. We only had time for a flying stop so did n... | ||||
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| 24th Sep 2008 - 30th Sep 2008 | ||||
| Dahab | ||||
| The Lonely Planet warns female travelers off going to the hot springs in smaller towns since the Islamic locals don't take to kindly to women in bikinis (or perhaps a bit too kindly). Anyway, to give Bonny the... | ||||
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| 20th Sep 2008 - 23rd Sep 2008 | ||||
| Cairo | ||||
| Our feelings as we took the final step to Cairo were mixed. We had a huge sense of accomplishment that we have completed the Cape to Cairo route but also a realisation that the end of our trip is getting very ... | ||||
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| 17th Sep 2008 - 19th Sep 2008 | ||||
| Through the White Desert to Cairo | ||||
| Instead of following the Nile north we took the Western Desert Route to Cairo. The beginning of the trip was quite frustrating as when we left Luxor we were told that we would need a police escort. We wa... | ||||
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