Category Archives: Africa

Vrijdag 3 augustus Van Luxor naar Aswan – 200 km Just 200 kilometres in seven hours and 200 speed ups. Very hard for the Model-T and the Landrover, but they did a great job. A few kilometres before Aswan the … Continue reading →

Donderdag 2 augustus – Luxor The Model-T and the Landrover have a day of rest. We stay today in Luxor. Ben and Joke make a balloon flight and together with Dirk and Trudy we visit the Valley of the Kings … Continue reading →

We leave early for a long way to Luxor. The road to Luxor is under construction and some parts are very bad, we only can drive 30km/hour. Many gasstations are out of order. It is hard to find fuel and … Continue reading →

Dinsdag 31 juli Van Ras Gharib naar Hurghada – 170 km. Mahmoud Ezzeldin has accompanied us in his old-timer car Mercedes to Hurghada, a real touristic place with a beach and a good place for diving in the Red Sea. … Continue reading →

Maandag 30 juli Van Ain Suk Hna naar Ras Gharib – 200 km Today we change places, Trudy in the oldtimer Mercedes, Joke and Ben co-driver in the T-Ford. Dirk tells how to drive the T-Ford. That is not so … Continue reading →

Zondag 29 juli Van Rasel Sudr naar Ain Suk Hna ( 168 km) Today we drive the last part of the Sinaï to the north. We pass the very narrow tunnel of the Suez canal.Welcome in Afrika. On the coffeeshop … Continue reading →

Saturday 28 july Today we have to drive 230 kilometers through the desert of Sinaï.We start at 6.15. At 7.00 we have to stop at a checkpoint and we have to wait for protection by the police. We put the … Continue reading →

Friday 27 juli Glad and happy we drive to the south through the Sinaï desert.Wonderful, what a different landscape and beautiful colors. But the heat is too much for the Model-T.She get overheated and she has to stop and to … Continue reading →

Donderdag 26 juli The day of the truth, do we skip Egypt or are we going into Egypt? We make several phone calls to the automobile club, the headquarters of the customs, the Dutch embassy and even the minister of … Continue reading →

This morning Dirk and Mohammed, our guide, went to the harbor to get the right stamps on the car papers. We tried to mobilise as much people as we can: the ANWB (dutch organisation) the ADAC (german organisation), the Egypt … Continue reading →