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Egypt

Calling it quits in Cairo

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Keeping this short and sweet like our trip to Egypt!

A pleasant border crossing from Israel to Egypt (despite the short bomb scare) a mucky toilet (which frankly we both feel represents a nice middle ground in the spectrum of nasty toilets that we have seen: click here for a photo of it if you are not eating) a bus ride to Dahab, some diving, eating and chilling was a great start. We indulged in Thai, steak, beer and doing nothing when not in the water. I managed to do experience some excellent diving on the Thistlegorm Wreck. Continue reading Calling it quits in Cairo →

China

Baby steps from Inner Mongolia to the border of Kazakhstan

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As soon as we had crossed into China, we managed to hop on a bus to Hohot, the capital of the Chinese province “Inner Mongolia”. Short-distance buses in China, i.e. anything up to a 10 hour ride, leave often hourly of half-hourly and you can get a ticket almost instantly. You just show up the counter, battle with the crowd to get to the window Continue reading Baby steps from Inner Mongolia to the border of Kazakhstan →