Egypt

I didnt expect to stay in Egypt for 3 months but theres so much to do there. The people are generally nice but anyone who deals with money will try over charge you, It happened everywhere in Egypt, all the time. Cairo was huge and is a 24 hour city, its dirty polluted and over crowded but brilliant.
I done loads of scuba diving in Egypt and nearly stayed to become dive master and teach diving, but I wanted to get on with me travels!

'Amr Ibn El-As' mosque in cairo, seen loads of mosques but this one was pretty impressive.

These are the shoes you have to wear into the mosque, so the infidels feet dont touch the floor.

The lighthouse in Alexandria, it fell down years ago so only the base is left.

Spent christmas in the desert in Siwa. These were the tents we slept in. About 6 of us that met in Tunisia went to Siwa.

The place we stayed was a hot spring, so there was a pool with really hot water all the time, you could leave the fire at any time of the night and jump into the hot bath, and we were the only people staying there so had the place to ourselves.

Christmas eve. The hot springs were run by bedouines who had a band, it wasnt really a sex drugs and rock'n roll band but rather weird instruments and loads of dancing... although the bedouines were doing bong after bong after bong after bong.

Sand bording on Christmas day. Once again we had to drag ourselves up the dunes carring the board so we didnt do it for every long.

Christmas dinner.

St Stephen's day we climbed a mountain (hill). I was really missing the belly full of Stephens day Guinness but it was fairly nice hill.

Sunset on the way back down.

Most of the taxi's in Siwa were donkey and carts. We usually got this young bedouine donkey driver. He didnt speak much english but he knew the word fucken, I say it quite often and every time I said it he would repeat it. Sometimes when we would be sitting around the market, he would fly (at donkey speed) past shouting ''fucken fucken fucken''.

One of my finer nabs.

My akiles heel, Dahab! This is the one reason I stayed in Egypt for so long. I went to Dahab for a few days and stayed over 7 weeks. The shore is full of cafe/bars like this, its a very difficult place to leave. Many a brain cell has been misplaced here.

Me and Tom. This was the day Egypt won the African Nations Cup. The Egyptians may have won, but we were definitely the drunkest people in Egypt.

The Chicken man. Every night after a sherry or twelve we stumbled back to this resturant. They seen us in all kinds of states.

Because we were in Dahab so long we got all kinds of deals, this place was half price for everything. So after a night of fear and loathing in Dahab, we would flake out in this resturant eating the finest sea food.

Paddy... Another spoke in the Dahab wheel of mayhem. This night me and Paddy made a bet. We both ate sleeping tablets and seen who could stay awake the longest. I won! And Paddy woke up with a dick drawn on his face?

Mount Sihai for sunrise. This is where Mosses came to get the 10 commandments. I wore the tackiest camel t-shirt in the world for the momentous occasion, it has a camel arse on the back.

Coptic Cairo I found fairly boring, but I liked this photo. It appears to be Jesus Christ the son of God, branding a black eye. Possibly after an altercation with Mohammed.

Mohamed Ali mosque in the citadel. This was the best mosque I seen in Egypt. The inside was unreal but I took so many photos on the outside, that my camera was dead when I got in.

Karnak temple was the same as every other temple, but I liked this photo.

Luxor temple.

Hatshepsut temple. Was in tutankhamun's tomb just before this but wasn't allowed to take pictures, his mummy is still in the tomb.

Me, 'Aidan the sword' and loads of kids that kept shouting Bin Laden at me.

Abu Simbel.

Feilai temple.

The pyramids in giza. This was the night time light show.

Went back to the pyramids to get a day time look at them, and to surf a camel. I imagine the ancient egyptians would surf their camels in a similar fashion to this.

View just as I was leaving the pyramids.

Beard update. Bin Laden or Castaway? I can feel my beard blowing in the wind now, huge milestone.