I can hardly believe
22.1.2004 | Tripoli, Libya
WE GOT IN! I actually haven't realized yet that we succeeded in the most uncertain, questionable, but key part of the journey – Peter and I have entered Libya! We spent 14 hours of our lives at the border, but it paid off. Guide Saleh came from Tripoli to the Egyptian border with delay because the bus broke down several times. But he finally came! In three and a half hours all the border procedures were cleared and we went further 3 hours of driving into the interior of the country. We were all extremely tired, Saleh, for instance, hadn't slept for more than 36 hours! Last two days were tough, I drove 1.700 kilometres, but we also had a bad sleep; Saleh's tent was being shaken by a horrible wind, and Peter and me were trying to sleep in the shaking car on our empty airbed (they ran out of stock at Carrefour so we couldn't replace it even with the bill I had found), while feeling every and each piece of luggage underneath us. Tonight we'll have some repairing job again.
On the border
20.1.2004 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
Desert ship with its passengers is at the Egyptian border with Libya, waiting for a guide. They cannot arrange entrance documentation and enter the country without him. At the moment there are also some problems with the cell phone. Tilen cannot make calls to Libya, while he can stil call his friends in Slovenia. (by Rok)
Not enough muscles
19.1.2004 | West Egypt
This web page has been criticized for not showing enough muscles. The last day of our Egyptian adventure Peter and me are correcting the error. I only hope that in Libya we'll soon find some internet connection to remove this news from the first place. Together with muscles, the armour goes as well, so I am also attaching some pics from the Military Museum in al-'alamayn (yes, exactly where Montgomery chased Rommel 1.300 kilometres all the way to Tunisia).
Live radio report - change
18.1.2004 | Egypt
There has been a change as Tilen will report live on the radio one hour earlier as announced. He will report tonight between 1 AM and 2 AM CET (Sunday - Monday) on the night program of Radio Slovenija. (by Rok)
The Red Sea has finally become red
17.1.2004 | Cairo, Egypt
On our way from Luxor to the Red Sea coast we escaped from police convoy of some hundred vehicles and proceeded on our own under the shelter of the night. We were pretty disappointed by this side of the red Sea coast (compared to the beautiful Sinai side), and the incredible quantitiy of flies (I swear I haven't seen that many on one place in my life) probably added some to the athmosphere with the cloudy skies, covered by dark fumes from the nearby oil platforms. Despite another information, we had to join another convoy from Hurgada to the north, but were probably quite annoying to the last escort vehicle while we were driving with our constant slowlyness of 90 kph and our legs out of the windows (the cruise control was doing the job), far behind the last escorted vehicle.