Day 31, 4 August 2012, Cairo to Giza - Downtown Cairo, US$27/night including breakfast & wifi... Giza, The Oasis Hotel, US$180/night... Yup, the ridiculous to the sublime via one of Egypt's new, swish, black & white metered taxis. Now it wasn't the near punchup with an opposing cabbie when we jumped in and yelled Yella Yella! (go go!), it wasn't the almost complete lack of English - once he figured out we were heading to Giza, we got on the right road a...

Day 30, 3 August 2012, Day Trip to Alexandria - Established 321 BC by Alexander the Great (no modesty issues there then dude...) We had no prior intentions of visiting Alexandria but our driver from the airport reckoned it was definitely a day trip and 2-3 hours each way in an air-conditioned car seemed like nothing after Africa. Now not being particularly "seat of the pants" type folks, it was completely out of character for us to be reading the guidebook en r...

Day 29, 2 August 2012, The Egyptian Museum, Midan Tahrir, Cairo - We set off reasonably early to walk to the Museum and arrived respectably 22 minutes after opening time at 9. Would have been earlier but a very friendly fellow just had to show us his perfume shop... We know, we know, we know not to go - but just over here he said. No No we said, and yet 2 corners and a 100 metres later, guess where we found ourselves. Pesky built in western politeness. We did...

Day 28, 1 August 2012, Nairobi (Kenya) to Cairo (Egypt), 4 hours 50 minutes via Egypt Air - Actual seat room in Economy. Don't tell anybody. Cairo is wonderful. Landing at an airport completely surrounded by sand is unusual and very (very) bright. We arrived into the middle of an Egyptian summer - 29 degrees at 8.30 am and intense humidity. So not unduly disagreeable - it is however baffling to the Egyptians we have met who have never experienced humidity li...