Day 24 – A night we'd rather forget

Every one has their favourite travel stories, this could well be ours.

In the afternoon at Luxor a dust storm rolled in from the Sahara desert. Dust storms affect flights and ours was delayed 90 minutes.

At Cairo there had been heavy rain for most of the day and airport air traffic was very heavy – so we circled Cairo for 20 minutes. Our plane was parked well away from the terminal so bags took forever to be retrieved.

The effect of the heavy rain on the ground was devastating – roads were flooded and impassable in spots for cars and grid lock ensued– our bus driver bullied his way through the traffic maze and we finally got to bed at 1 am.

We had planned to leave the hotel by 7am the next morning but decided on an hour later which was just as well as our guide told us later that he did not get to his home until 3 am.

As you can imagine I’ve left out lots of juicy details which will be recounted at the dinner table at home many times in the future.