Aswan, Egypt, Africa Today we had (what we hope to be) the earliest wakeup call of the trip. After going to bed around 12am a nice gentleman from the ship was knocking on our door at the completely uncivilized time of 2:15am! He must have been knocking for a while because I know I heard the knocking a few times before I realized what it was and answered the door. It was not easy getting up or getting Ryan to…
Aswan, Egypt, Africa Today started with our “wake up” call at 7:45am from the train. I hesitate to call it a wake up call because neither one of us actually got any sleep, but regardless, we were now up and getting “breakfast” in bed. Again, I hesitate to call it breakfast because it was a dinner roll, a pastry and an orange juice, but it got us moving anyway. There were no shower facilities on the train, so we all…
Cairo, Egypt, Africa Today started out with our earliest wake up call on the trip so far, 5:45am. We went downstairs and finally got to meet some of the people on our tour, since we’d missed the meeting last night. We signed up for some extra trips along the way, and then set off on the bus for our first stop in Egypt. We pulled up to the Egyptian Museum at around 8:40am and got a brief history lesson from…
Cairo, Egypt, Africa There’s not really a whole lot to write today because all we did is travel. We woke up in Rome, packed up our stuff and headed straight to the airport for noon. We made sure to leave early to get the car back in time. We followed signs for “Car rental returns” and it said that we had to go to Garage B. So we drove through Garage B like a couple of idiots before finally asking…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We finished our trip off with a nice relaxing day in Marrakech riding camels. We found out yesterday that our camel trek today was going to pick us up at 10:20am rather than 9am, so that was a nice bonus. We were able to sleep late, get packed up and ready to check out of the hotel and go trekking. Our tour guide was right on time and we were greeted by the smiling faces of Patty…
Ouzoud, Morocco, Africa Today started off much better than yesterday. After breakfast, we found our tour guide waiting for us in the lobby…early! We got in the van and met the two English girls we would be sharing today’s excursion with. Patty and Kate were from Bristol, and are just travelling around the same as us, trying to find the touristy places. We settled in for the 3 hour drive ahead of us to the Ouzoud Cascades. We drove for…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa Our second day in Marrakech didn’t get off to the best start. We were planning on going on a half day camel trek, which was booked and paid for a couple months ago. The tour guide showed up at 9am, picked us up and we went off in the van with a couple of other French people. We went to a very dodgy crossroads and waited for about 10 minutes. No other guests came, so the driver…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We arrived in Marrakesh at 6:00pm and walked off the plane to be hit in the face with a wall of heat. At that point it was only about 90*F (30*C). I can just imagine what tomorrow is going to be like out in the middle of the desert, on a dirty camel, in the beating sun, in the middle of the day. It’s gonna be great! We walked around the Marrakesh airport for about 30 minutes…