Sign up your free travel blog today!
Username: Password:
Our Blog Our Photos Our Diary Our Movies Our Map Message Board
Buy CD

Buy Gift Voucher

Mike and Bonny in Africa
Mike and Bonny's African Adventure!!! In our trusty (and thirsty) Landcruiser DUF we are driving down the west coast of Africa and back up the east starting in August 2007. We will update this site as often as we can and look forward to seeing you all in London in November 2008!
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...
731 Words | 25 ReadsRead moreRead more

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...
91 Words | 17 ReadsRead moreRead more

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...
311 Words | 27 ReadsRead moreRead more

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 ...
511 Words | 12 ReadsRead moreRead more

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...
230 Words | 73 ReadsRead moreRead more

This blog has 167 diary entries. You can see them all on the diary page