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 general heat and nois...

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 events of 2011, when a ma...

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

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

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 ochre-hued interior - w...

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

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 disputed Western Sahara reg...

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

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 into the Sinai regio...