We stopped in Suez to see the namesake canal. This wasn't a tourist town to begin with, and it was low season and summer. The town was dead. We caught a taxi to the port and got a room at an overpriced hotel. The upside was that our room was on the sixth floor and you could see the boats going through the canal from our balcony. We wandered down...

Woke up this morning 75kms from Cairo on the side of a motorway which happened to be in the middle of... a desert (again?!?) I can see why the south coast of Sinai is not so popular what with the oil wells / refineries and constant flow of ships into the Suez Canal. However none of that phased me so much as the wind. Boy was it windy, and in the...

Tried to do the 'right' thing and take the bus from Sharm to Cairo. Turns out my face (the only white one on the bus!) causes all sorts of pain in the neck for the locals. The police at Suez spot my face, gather there it poses an opportunity for 'dangerous western drug smuggler caught red handed', or alternative 'stupid tourist thought they coul...

...No problem, it's just an 11 hour journey by bus! An early start this morning at 5:45am was needed to properly pack our rucksacks, have a quick shower, and get downstairs for breakfast at 6:30. We needed to be at the ferry terminal at 7:00am, one hour ahead of our scheduled 8:00am departure, and we were going to walk the 800m or so from our ho...

Docked here for the day before we went through the Suez Canal on our way to Port Said, Egypt.