I must admit, as you come over the hill on Cairo’s outskirts, you can’t help but to have your breath taken away not only by the blanket of pollution, but your first glimpse of the silhouette of the pyramids off…
Alexandria, Egypt – Day 80
On the way to Alexandria stopped at the war museum in El Alamein (Oh, forgot to mention stopping at the war cemetery in Tobruk, Libya as well, about an hour before the Egyptian border). One of the better museums we…
Siwah, Egypt – Day 78
Christmas in Egypt! Bizarre. Well, not really… just had to be always reminding ourselves that it was actually Christmas as there was very little to remind us of it. Siwah is actually a pretty cool little oasis town in the…
Cyrene/Apollonia, Libya – Day 76
Pulled into Cyrene at the front of the museum at around dusk; we were going to camp in the parking lot but the restaurant told us security might tell us to move so we could camp on their lawn for…
Tkarkiba, Libya – Day 67
After 2 nights spent in Ghadames (highlight was walking through the Old City, and trying to get a wire soldered for my charger), passed through Sabha for lunch which turned out to be the town where all the tour guides…
Leptis Magna, Libya – Day 63
It’s hard these days to get excited about seeing yet another site of ruins, we’ve seen so many so far on the trip. But they say Leptis Magna is the be all and end all of Phoenician/Roman ruins and after…
Tripoli, Libya – Day 61
I’d say Tripoli is the most modern city we’ve seen since leaving Vancouver. Lots of fancy new hi-rises and the like (presumably one of the places the oil money is going). The bank we were going to get money from…
Sabratha, Libya – Day 60
Sabratha isn’t that far from the border. Perhaps 100kms? Pulled up to the Tunisian/Libyan border around noon; people seemed to be simply going through the motions of getting us thru. Was nice because we stayed on the truck, and as…
Tataouine, Tunisia – Day 54
Thought to myself about how weird my tombstone would look if I died on my 30th birthday as we flew to Tataouine at mach 2 in the Louage (even the locals looked uneasy). Tataouine disappointingly really doesn’t have a lot…
Matmata, Tunisia – Day 53
Took THREE louages to get to Matmata from Douz (it’s not really that far… just the way the connecting towns work). Sometimes you have to wait a while for the Louages to leave (had to wait 2 hours for one…