Jambo! After a very early morning flight and 3 hour layover in Ethiopia (where we were told to wait at the wrong gate and found out half an hour before our flight) we arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. Upon landing, the sun was out, the land looked arid and we spotted zebra grazing on the outskirts of the airport. We transferred to the hotel and seeing as we may have got an hours sleep between us we set an alarm and had a snooze until our meeting at 6pm. Of course the...

Back to Cairo & a visit the Egyptian Museum. It took a little over 2 hours to brisk the 2 floors which contain 20,000+ items recovered from Ancient Egypt. The most impressive section was that dedicated to King Tutankhamen. We saw his famous gold mask which was placed over the head of his mummy. He was then laid in a number of coffins (like a bubushka doll) each gold plated with the most beautiful detail of carvings and embedded glass and jewels. You can't hel...

To be honest, there is not much to report from Dahab...because we really didn't do much! It was just good to relax and Dahab was the setting to do it. Each night we wined & dined at the beachside open air restaurants. Each is so desperate for business that we were able to negotiate free mezze, free dessert, free tea/coffee and free sheesha, plus a 10% discount on the main course. We tried all kinds of weird and wonderful Egyptian dishes: kofta, kabab, baba g...

To cover the 900km between Cairo and Aswan we took the overnight train. We thought it would be wise to upgrade from the basic 'seater' train to the 'sleeper' train which came with bunk beds and it's own private compartment, however it didn't do much good for anyway because James didn't sleep a wink due to all the noise and movement. Luckily the next day was quite chilled out so we could spend some time getting to know our awesome tour group and relaxing by the ...

After arriving in Cairo at 6am (with a quick pitstop in Bangkok) we got taken to our first hotel in Giza on the outskirts of Cairo. We were a little unprepared for the first experience on the roads....no seatbelts, no speed limit, no lanes and it's a free-for-all on the horn. The rule for Cairo driving is "free space is my space" as there is as many as 9 million cars on the road on any given day. Safely at the hotel, we had a look around and met some of our tour...