I left Egypt today for my trip into Libya.We drove for about two hours to the border at Sallum and had to go through departure formalities.It seemed to take forever to get out of Egypt and it worried me that if it was this difficult to get out of Egypt, how difficult was it going to be to get into Libya.As it turns out it only took us about half an hour to go through arrival formalities on the other side and our new guide Tarik handled most of it for us. The o...

We left Siwa and drove 300km back to Marsa Matrouh, the breakfast at the hotel was really bad and I was hungry all the way back. The ride in the small air conditioned bus/van, was very boring and I didn't have much to entertain myself with, as I had on the truck. We got to Marsa Matrouh and I went straight to Pizza Hut for lunch, I just wanted some normal western food. It was really good pizza, the cheese was actually stretchy cheese. I walked back via the prome...

I spent the better part of this morning getting re-acquainted with my old mate sleeping in, that is after I woke up promptly at 6am panicking that I was late for whatever the departure time was on the truck. This is going to take some getting used to, I'm having overlanding withdrawals, technically I'm still overlanding, so maybe I'm having Dragomaniacs withdrawals. I managed to stay in bed until 9am before going off to breakfast and then attempting to explore t...

I just stood in the room where Alexander the Great was proclaimed the true son of Zeus and pharaoh of Egypt.I have finally made my pilgrimage to Siwa Oasis and the Temple of the Oracle of Amun Ra. We left Marsa Matrouh around 9am, we were supposed to leave at 8:30am, but we were running on Egyptian time as the tea wasn't ready when we came down for breakfast.We got in the bus and drove the 300km to Siwa in about three hours. We got to Siwa and went in some 26...

I had a lovely breakfast on top of the Windsor Palace hotel this morning before leaving at 8am. The hotel is at a central point in the harbour and I sat there feeling as if Ptolemy could have sat in the exact same spot and watched over the city while having his breakfast.This time around I think I had definitely gotten a sense of what Alexandria was supposed to be.Alexandria is meant to be enjoyed, its nothing without a fancy hotel, good food and plenty of mone...