Day 3 Carthage After a couple of days hanging out in Tunis, you start to get a little tired of the hustle and bustle, heavy traffic and...

Is it Safe? The idea of going to Tunisia is one that I had been mulling over for a while - in fact probably more than a decade. The...

Water worries After leaving the Sahara, the road took us north from Merzouga through Erfoud and from there to Er-Rachidia, where we...

To the Desert Ourzazate, in the southern part of 'proper' Morocco (it's actually quite central if you count the immense wilderness that...

To the Anti-Atlas After spending roughly a week on the Moroccan coast, it was time to move inland and explore some of the spectacular...

Agadir - limited appeal We took a bus down to the coast after our mountain exertions, and decided to have a few days of relative...

This trip took place in September 2006. Most of what I wrote is still accurate. Morocco is a safe country to visit, with only the...

Travel restrictions I took a train down the Nile to Luxor from Cairo. To give some idea of the disparity between 'tourist' prices and...

Into Sinai I took the bus from Jerusalem back down to Eilat and stayed one more night in Israel before making my way over the border and...