Cairo - Wrap Up (Nothing works, but it does) ·I've been in Cairo for a week now and what a week it's been, I through I would give a general run down on it. ·There are no road rules here, at traffic lights and level crossings but no one pays the slightest bit of attention. You take your life in your hands crossing the road, which is only made more difficult by someone who hassles you while you are trying to do this. Egyptians are constantly on the horn all ...

I was supposed to go on a tour to St Antony's Monastery up near the Suez Canal today, but the tour company got everything wrong and didn't turn up! b***** them, I'm still going to have a good day. Famous last words. I decided to go for a walk through Cairo in an attempt to find the Khan el Khalili bazaar. My first attempt at leaving the hotel was awful, I went in the total wrong direction and ended up in hassle city. The hassling isn't too bad, I guess you just ...

Today also, I decided to visit Islamic Cairo, most specifically the Citadel. I arrived there and I paid my 40 EGP to get in. I looked all around and went into the alabaster mosque of Mohammed Ali, this time the ladies at the door, didn't robe me up, which is testament to the way I've been dressing here. Must have looked respectful enough. I took off my shoes and went in, I was as impressed as last time and got some really good pictures. The dome is extra impressi...

Today, I decided for take two at the Pyramids… no wait this was my third visit if you include 2006. I came here to go into the Great Pyramid and by God I'm going to. I got another private driver for the day and off we went. I insisted on 3 hours this time, I knew the ticket office didn't open till 1pm so I wandered around the site a bit. First, I went into the pyramid of Queen Hetepheres, the mother of Khufu, her small pyramid is next to his. The crawl in was ...

Today was my trek out to Amarna and when I say trek I mean trek. My tour company arrived to collect me at 7am and I saw the nice little mini bus with EOL tours on the side of it and was actually momentarily relieved that it was now someone else's turn to deal with the chaos of organizing things. That didn't last long, I got in and the driver immediately demanded $180 USD, double what I had been quoted. I after much fussing around on the phone they told me they on...