Day 13 Discover Egypt I wake up a catch the family just as they are leaving. We have a final coffee together and then we say our goodbyes again. I have some breakfast and then go and shower. It's a sad time as this is almost the end of my trip I pack my faithful rucksack again which no longer smells of shower gel. 9:30 and we board the mini bus for our last long journey back to Cairo. As there is only 3 of us on the return trip and we had paid for a bigger ...

Day 12 Discover Egypt I wake up about 6am and watch the sun rise over the mountains of Saudi Arabia. The sun light catches the red sea and the sky is amazing mixture of reds and pinks. I sit and have my first cigarette of the day. Grant walks past and says he is going to get a coffee so I join him. We sit and drink our coffee and have a cigarette and in a little while Jen joins us and has a tea. We all head back to our huts and I go for a shower. It's then...

Day 11 Discover Egypt This morning we get a bit of a lay in as we don't have to leave the hotel until 09:30. So we have some breakfast and then it's off to visit St Catherine's monastery. We walk up the hill and wonder round the monastery for a while checking out the burning bush for the second time and then we head back to the mini bus for our drive to the red sea beach camp. After a couple of hours on the bus we arrive in the town just before the beach camp a...

Day 10 Discover Egypt So here we go again another early start and a 8 hour bus ride to Mt sinai. We make amazing time thanks to our driver Mr F and complete our journey in just over 6 hours. We check into our rooms and have a rest for a while before we all meet at 15:30 for our climb of Mt Sinai. We get on the coach and are soon at the car park at the bottom of the mountain. We walk up the path for a while until we reach St Catharines monastery. At this p...

Day 10 Discover Egypt We are woken by the the porter at 03:45 for breakfast. The breakfast is no better than dinner and most of it is left. The train arrive at Giza Station in Cairo about 5:00 and we all disembark and climb onto our bus which is waiting outside. Back to the Pharaohs hotel and thankfully we can check in and have a nice shower. After a few hours rest we head out to explore Coptic Cairo, visiting some churches, mosques before going to the marke...