Today we visit Hatshepsut Temple. The Taxi driver expects us at the entrance. With hiking boots and plenty of water equipped we start. Mohammed is delighted, because we really have appeared, he says, that he is sometimes ordered by some…
From the Old Town you can see the Luxor Temple, the second of the highlights of the city. The Luxor temple fulfilled two tasks. At New Year the Set Festival was celebrated. The statues of the gods Amun, Mut and…
Most houses are situated along a tributary of the Nile. It is interesting to observe how people live here. Here at Luxor sugar cane is grown. Again and again we see the tractors with trailers fully loaded to deliver the…
We spent a lot of time shopping and so it is getting late and we need soon accommodation. We are now already 90 days on tour and we get increasingly doubts whether we will be in Cape Town in 142…
In the morning we leave our bush camp early in the morning. I am amazed that our car is not so bad in the sandy terrain and is surprisingly off-road suited, although we do not have four-wheel drive. Meanwhile, we…
Our route leads along a depression in which several oasis developed. The Oasis Bahariya with Bawiti, Farafra, Kharga and Dakhla is one of them. There are also numerous smaller uninhabited Oasis. Their names start with “bir” which means well or…
Next morning we start early. In Bawiti life has already started, because during daytime it is simply too hot and the desert dwellers are only activ in the early morning hours. We shop for more food supplys. Only slowly we…
We head for the black desert. Next morning we will leave Cairo, from here our journey leads us only South, deeper into the African continent. It will take us several days through the black and the white desert, untouched areas,…
The Dahshur Pyramids: Next day we want to go south of Cairo to Dahshur to the red and the bent pyramid. And we loose our way driving through the oasis back and forth. A friendly old Egyptan leads us out…
We have a lot of fun watching them and suddenly we realize that it is rather far to the Sphinx. It is around three kilometres to walk. And so the unavoidable happens and we decide to do the same like…