Was planning to go down to Aswan but with my ture situation could not risk it ,as it doesn't have enough kilo's left on it to get to Cairo or Israel, where they have tyres.
So bolted to Cairo on the Western Desert Road and made 380km when the police made me follow them again for 150km. Had seven different escorts and they drive so slow and it was 37*C and miserable.
The last 100km they let me loose and arrived around five at the Guardian Hotel. It is the tallest building in the area so have a nice view of the Pyramids.
DAY 117 SATURDAY 8th APRIL 23
Walked to the Pyramids and tried to find the spot where my Dad had a picture taken back in the WW2.
The ground was up about ten feet higher back then from what I could tell. Walked to all three Pyramids and went into the tombs which was rather interesting.
I sourced a tyre finally and the guy brought it over, made in Turkey, Analas. It will work till the end of the trip I hope. What a luck.
DAY 118 PERMIT TO ENTER SINAI PENINSULA.
I had heard you can get a permit to get into the Sinai, so my plan is to go to Israel entering at Tabah / Eilat border from Egypt.
So went today to try my luck.
It is at the HQ of the Military, and the security guys told me "no motorbikes in Sinai, go away now". Then they said I have to go the Ministry of Defence. They won't even let me in and send me away, so I go back to where I started. The guys won't let me enter the building just to talk to someone, so I persist and find a guy that speaks English and explain to him and he tells them and they argue and then let me in. Get to the 3rd floor, window 32, ask the guy about the permit, he agrees and copies all my documents, I wait an hour and he says I have to go and get the permit at an address he wrote down for the Uber driver.
So off we go and it takes us to The Ministry of Defence, guy says same thing, they do not issue stupid permits here.
I go back to my man on the 3rd floor and he tells me they do not issue permits for the Sinai in this office. I keep at him and tell him that this is where they issue permits and he argues a bit ,then tells me to wait. Then the senior guy comes and I repeat everything and then he says I don't need a permit and I tell him they sent me back and told me I need a permit. He tells me to wait. I wait. Then they confer with another old guy and I show him my papers and he grumbles and they tell me to wait. I wait. Finally they call me in and I pay $10 and the guy that told me they don't issue permits there, hands me the permit !
Started at 9am and walked out at 2:30pm , very happy indeedas at one stage I was ready to bag it but thought I would go back and bitch a little more and it worked. What really irked me was the Uber cost of $13 for the whole day !
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