Today is the day!
2019年5月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 19 °CThank goodness for Helen, finding out we needed an International Driver’s License! Fortunately, the NRMA at Castle Hill we’re able to issue one on the spot, so got it this morning, in the nick ofもっと詳しく
Thank goodness for Helen, finding out we needed an International Driver’s License! Fortunately, the NRMA at Castle Hill we’re able to issue one on the spot, so got it this morning, in the nick ofもっと詳しく
So far, so good. Gonna be a long day today (surprise, surprise !)
Having a Starbucks break. We have a day in Macau exploring, before the long trek to Cairo. Yes, we do it the long way, but I can't flyもっと詳しく
Next leg of the outward bound journey, that was always going to be long.. Hong Kong to Dubai... Flight takes off 00:35 hours. We will definitely sleep this leg.. We've walked 20,000 steps on about 3もっと詳しく
We broke up the trip by a 14 hour layover in Macau. We'd not been here before, so it was interesting. It is the Las Vegas of Asia, with 38+ casinos, many replicas of Vegas, including theもっと詳しく
Nothing to report, last stop before Cairo! Gratuitous selfie while PeeVee seeks EGP, ready for the tipping.
An amazing day...finally made it to Cairo. Flying over the Sinai Peninsula was quite surreal. There is a photo of the Suez Canal. The water was stunningly blue amid the dun colour of the vastもっと詳しく
So, here I am, it is now 3am and I’m wide awake. We crashed at 9pm, it was the latest we could last after more than 64 hours without being horizontal, but damn this body not allowing my more than 6もっと詳しく
We both woke super early this morning(see my earlier post!), so had a leisurely morning over breakfast and coffee. We then packed our gear, and the hotel stored it for us, then we hit the street. Weもっと詳しく
Today we had one thing planned - the trip to Abu Simbel. We were collected by our driver, Ramon, a young man of few words, but very efficient. The drive to Abu Simbel is 3 hours and 280km through theもっと詳しく
Today, we were collected at 9am from the hotel by our guide for the next 4 days, Hany. Hany took us to the Aswan High Dam, a very important site, built in 1960s, above the low dam built in 1902. Itもっと詳しく