Confusion
15.1.2004 | Luxor, Egypt
"Peter are you going to write something for the web page?" …after ten days my hibernated grey cells have gone trough a thermal shock. Awaking was slow because, in fact, night temperatures in the desert are frequently below zero. Just after a weak of traffic chaos, sand and solitude, oasis and palms, Bedouins and wind, stars and hot springs, it is possible for me to focus my mind. Everything is just gorgeous, plastic bags hiding behind salad in the fields, rotten smiles, shakes of hands and "Where you from?", "Welcome to Egypt!" and "Good business."
Friendly people
14.1.2004 | Luxor, Egypt
I'm waiting and waiting, searching, looking everywhere, lifting plastic bags, spread over the landscape, pointing my flashlight into dark corners – no success. Wait a minute! What about there, behind that big hotel?! Still nothing. Where are they? Where are all those unpleasant, intrusive and hustling Egyptians everybody from Slovenia through Syria to Morocco was warning me of? I was looking for them on Sinai, in Sharm, in Cairo, in desert oasis, in the Nile valley, in front of the Valley of the Kings… I haven't seen any. Did they die out, moved away, or am I only that resistant? I have no idea – the only thing I know is that all the people I'm meeting are very nice and funny. OK, they try to sell anything to a stranger, they are constantly offering you this and that, they try to convince you, they bargain, but they are still completely harmless.
Asyut - Terrorists in action
13.1.2004 | Luxor, Egypt
Yesterday's news started with scaring information, namely that in this hostile Egypt, police is waiting outside the cybercafe to take me with Peter who knows where and there they would eat us. And all of you who were trying to convince me not to go to those dangerous and hostile countries, homeland of Moslem fanatics and terrorism, said to yourselves: "I knew it would happen sooner or later."
Sandscrewing
11.1.2004 | Western desert, Egypt
News for January 9th and 10th (together with presentation of Peter) have been added. Photos are attached also. Today, January 12th, we arrived to Asyut safe and sound, although we actually didn't want at all to come here. Police is waiting for us outside to take us to the their headquarters, so the news about the day of today and about everything that was happening comes to the web tomorrow. Insha'allah.
Who is Peter
10.1.2004 | Western desert Egypt
I met Peter Bastjančič, my friend who has joined me for the Egyptian-Libyan part of this expedition, for the first time at university during the study of Spanish.