Redemption. That's the word for today, and today was awesome. Today we visited Leptis Magna, which was outstanding, one of the most amazing ancient sites I have ever visited. We started at the circus, which was the ancient chariot race track, Tarek our tour leader pointed out how to get down to the track and walk into the amphitheatre along the triumvural way, just as the victors would have done. The amphitheatre, was the most impressive I've ever seen, and I'v...

900km, brutal! We drove the whole Gulf of Sirt today and it was just a pretty long drive day. I've had interesting drive days before, but that was on the truck with a bunch of fun people, it's a little different now. We left early, well early for this tour, 7:30am has become early. We had a few stops along the way and stopped for lunch for about 45 minutes. It was a scorching hot day and during one of the stops our tour leader said to me, "Is Australia this...

Thank God we left Al Bayda today, one more afternoon of watching their one channel in English and eating junk food in my hotel room and I think I would have jumped off the balcony. We had a few stops today, the first of which was 45 minutes from Al Bayda, it was a very small site called Slanta, it was behind a locked fence and was not even as big as the area covered by my parents garden shed. The policeman who is travelling with us climbed over the gate and unlo...

For the first time in what seems like ages I didn't have to pack up my bag this morning. We had a 9am start and with the one hour time difference could not managed to sleep in past 7:30am. I had a leisurely breakfast and got into the bus. We drove to the site of Cyrene which is a Greek settlement dating back to 700BC. We visited the museum first and I stood there being annoyed that we were forced to listen to a guide blathering on about crap. I, in fact spent mo...

Oh my God!I am in guided tour hell, if only there was another way to see this country.I am staying in beautiful hotels, have to follow a guide around everywhere, have guides at all the sites, included meals and an air conditioned bus.I would trade it all in for bush camping in the desert, cooking my own food, getting lost everywhere I go, good company and most of all, a hot, noisy, bumpy truck! Our first stop this morning was more war cemetaries, we went to a ...