Day 48: Aswan - Luxor
Today the team was back to an early start, with the bikes being unloaded this morning, we all wanted to be at the port early to make sure everything went as planned. Seeing that we are still in Africa this did not happen, as on arrival we found that the barge was blocked in by numerous other barges, with the Captain thinking we could just drive across them. After explaining to the Captain and Crew that this was an impossible task, we eventually got the barge moved and after the customs officials had checked the bikes we were free to bring the bikes back on dry land. It was then another few hours of waiting for the Egyptian License plates to be processed and once taped on the team made a hasty getaway. After about an hour drive the team stopped for lunch and following being treated to an awesome meal of fried chicken it was back on the road and onward to the city of Luxor, home to the Valley of the Kings. On arrival in Luxor, we were met by a Police Motorcycle who escorted to our hotel; needless to say the team really enjoyed this new found celebrity status. During check in the team was met by yet another challenge, sometime during the day Craig had managed to misplace his passport, luckily for us Waugie pulled out his superman cape and rushed to the rescue, managing to recover the passport in less than four hours. Tired, relieved and eager to get into Cairo the team retired to bed early, knowing that tomorrow brought an early wake up and almost eight hundred kilometers to travel.
Waiting for the license plates.
The Egyptian license plate.
Stopping for lunch.
Rob, Les and Peter at lunch.
Grant, Paul and Waugie at lunch.
The team with our escort.
Arriving at the hotel.
COMMENTS
Hope you have enjoyed and marvelled at the thrill of seeing and experiencing so much you guys. Would be good to catch up for a beer when you get back and tell some stories!!!
Regards
Peter Boot
by Peter Boot on July 14 2009, 17:15
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Guys, I will be on my holidays when you get to the finish line so I wanted to say how impressed I am that you have nearly made it...The canoe trip from Devizes to Teddington kicks off on August 7th...I hope it will not take us as long as it has . .more
by Justin Baring on July 15 2009, 13:18
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I bet you are now planning the next challenge or rather the one after the next
by Clive on July 18 2009, 19:02
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I'm assuming you are now finished your epic trip, so congratulations and well done to you all! Love from all the Goodens
by Judy Gooden on July 19 2009, 07:19
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Missed your reports for a while, whilst we were doing Moz-Mal-Zim. Good to see the progress and still smiles all round (well, most of the pics anyway)!. Can't wait to hear the stories afterwards!
by Andre on July 20 2009, 15:03
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Hey Paul! Come on get us up to speed! How'd the saga end??? Must catch up soon. Get over your phobia of the USA & get your back side over here! Or better yet meet me in Canada :-) N. xxx
by Nicola Gordon-Gladwin on July 26 2009, 03:12
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Well done to all of you, what an experience it must have been.
Trusting you will put all this into a book, will be a great read.
How did the bikes hold out, would you say this was good choice of . .more
by Miles Simpson on July 27 2009, 09:40
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Well done to all concerned for a successfull "journey" All in one piece and full of experiencessss... and memories and who knows your dad may have another challenge in his mind ....Michel
by Michel on August 05 2009, 13:17
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Well done! I am certain you are enjoying yourselves. Where are you now. Don't much post and what befell the trip?
by Odwora Jaki on September 16 2009, 11:35
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