Today we have travelled 450kms from Cairo to Taba. Temperatures
have been between 12 and 20 degrees.
Riding here about a year after the bombing in Sharm El Sheijk means
any number of stops to show your Egyptian driver’s licence and
tell the officials where you’re going. Everybody is very nice
and seems to care about tourists, but I notice a difference from my
visit 2003, before the bomb and can’t remember any military
postings along the road.
The Sinai mountains are magic and the colours and the light are very
different from anywhere else.
Camels roam the area, with their front legs loosely tied together,
so the owner can catch them easily when he needs them.
Something that has made us wonder ever since we came to Egypt is why
a porcelain fanatic has stolen all toilet seats…
The roar from two big V-8 in the setting sun is to a motor lover almost
as nice as an early morning with all its sounds in Fjällbonäs.
