journal entries

Jul 05: [DW] Land of Pharaohs

Jun 05: [TS] Crazy Cairo

May 05: [TS] Sudan

Apr 05: [DW] Serengeti

Apr 05: [TS] Bandit Zone

Mar 05: [DW] Rwanda

Mar 05: [TS] Zanzibar

Mar 05: [TS] Into Interior

Mar 05: [DW] Ethiopia

Feb 05: [TS] Nile Challenge

Feb 05: [TS] The Pilgrimage

Jan 05: [TS] Mtwara

Jan 05: [DW] Tanzania

Jan 05: [TS] Wheel Clamped

Dec 04: [TS] Madagascar

Dec 04: [DW] Malawi

Dec 04: [TS] Mozambique

Nov 04: [DW] Okavango Delta

Nov 04: [DW] Zimbabwe

Nov 04: [DW] Botswana

Nov 04: [DW] Sesriem & on

25 Oct 04: [DW] To Sun City

22 Oct 04: [TS] Etosha Nat Park

18 Oct 04: [TS] Namibia

2 Oct 04: [TS] Lesotho

28 Sep 04: [DW] Wild Animals

24 Sep 04: [DW] Wild Coast

16 Sep 04: [TS] Garden Route

9 Sep 04: [TS] Arrival

Aug 04: [TS] Intro

the latest

July 2005

Crazy Cairo

Cairo's 20 million people with 19 million cars(ex), in streets that have no drainage and which were designed for horses and carts, together with the attitude of drivers and pedestrians make for chaotic scenes like nowhere else in the world. A lot of people in Cairo as in the rest of Egypt, push in at counters and queues and have no consideration of others around them.

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Land of the Pharaohs

So different from any of the countries we had been through, Egypt is a land of such beauty and infinite history. 70 million people live here in an area marginally larger than NSW. More than 90% of the population live along the Nile and it's only inhabited no more than 3km either side.

The Nile is a continual oasis with date palms and lush green crops adorning the edges. There's a backdrop of yellow sand dunes, workers in the field with their donkeys and carts, timeless felucca sailing boats coursing
gently along, cattle donkeys and goats wander through the villages, turban headed men dressed in their jalabiyya robes riding donkeys and sitting in cafes drinking coffee - smoking sheesha pipes, incredible huge stone temples not hundreds but thousands of years old.

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