We decided to have the van serviced by Mercedes Benz in Hurgharda to ensure all the parts were genuine after 10,000 fairly hard miles….big mistake….. HUGE…..
If you have a blue Mercedes overall you must be a mechanic!
They overfilled the engine, broke the fuel line and then fitted a fuel water/separator so badly it took two days to sort out and its still a bodge….. because they didn’t have the right spare parts. We now have a permanent engine malfunction light on the dashboard but apparently “its nothing serious” just telling us that the fuel line is non standard….
Anyway enough of that…. the diving was superb and the reefs deserted the team at Emperor divers say they regularly had 20 boats anchored on the best sites but we saw no one else.
After Hurgharda we went south along the coast stopping at a couple of dive sites camping alfresco
view from the bedroom window!
and spending more time in the water and sun.
Amazing drive across the Red Sea mountains
and desert from Al Queser ( one thing about the current lack of police in Egypt is the closed desert roads don’t seem to be high priority at the moment so we just turned right) and blasted across to Luxor.
The markers must mean someone is going to build here….
How amazing to see the pyiamrds looming up behind a five-storey building. It seems fairly prosperous, were there things to buy besides the usual tourist stuff? What are the buildings made from, what’s the brownish coffee colour? Sand, in some form, I guess. My daughter just finished writing an essay on Egypt, I had to learn all about Egyptian foreign policy.