Another Trip

Blogging will take another brief hiatus, as I’ve decided to go on another trip and will most likely not have internet.

I spent most of today just sitting around and doing nothing exciting or interesting, and I realized that I don’t want to spend my last few weeks here like that.  So, around six this evening I decided that I would leave Cairo tomorrow morning and go… somewhere.

That somewhere, at the moment, seems to be Alexandria, where I will head by train in the morning and probably spend tomorrow night.  After that, I think I’m going to take the eleven hour bus ride to Siwa, which is a remote oasis in far western Egypt, almost to Libya.  The oasis has been inhabited for something like 12,000 years, and it seems to be full of ruins and the like.  Moreover, it’s in the middle of the desert, so if all goes well I’ll spend a night or two out in the desert as well.  Then, on the way back, I’m considering spending a day in Marsa Matruh, which is a resort town on the Caribbean that I have to stop over in to connect buses in anyways.

I have no real itinerary – no reservations for tickets or hotels or hostels in either Alex or Siwa – so where I am and where, as well as when I come back is up in the air.  I suspect, though, that I’ll be away five days or a week.