About an hour out of Arba Minch had to stop for a good 3 hours in a small town named Konso while Andu adjusted the overheating front brake (first 10am beer in a while!) Stopped again closer to Jinka for…
Arba Minch, Ethiopia – Day 120
Left Addis bright and early as it’s a good 10 hour drive to Arba Minch. Driver’s name is Andu; fairly quiet at first but has turned out to be a real treat for us. Quite religious (as are most people)…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Day 118
Ethiopia. Our first taste of “the real” Africa; Africa as everyone thinks about it. Sub-Saharan Africa. Plane left Cairo at around 2am so we had another crap night of little to no sleep. Road from airport in Addis goes through a…
Luxor, Egypt – Day 105
Pulled into Luxor around dinner and after some deliberation decided to go with the 3-star “New Pola” hotel as a little treat; the price is normally $35 US a night but sales guy gave it to us for less than…
Aswan, Egypt – Day 100
Train from Cairo to Aswan took around 12 hours, thus arriving at about noon. Sleepers were rather expensive so we signed up for first class instead which has nice, spacious seating that’s semi-sleepable. Aswan is quite a nice looking town…
Dahab, Egypt – Day 90
Didn’t end up making it to Nuweiba (on ferry from Jordan) until well after dark; found our way to the correct bank that sells visas for Egypt, showed it to customs and shared a minibus with a really nice couple…
Cairo, Egypt – Day 82
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…