The moment you’ve all been waiting for:

A Belated Update: I meant to comment on this earlier but failed to so I thought I would come back to this post to do so – for the sake of the web and those that may do a search when looking into their trip around Egypt.

Towards the end of our trip we met up with a tour guide, Naga Gabrail and I guess I just want to warn people against using him as a tour guide as he left me furious.

We found that “Gabrail” would basically say anything to get you to come on the tour with him. We initially contacted him to see about spending a night or two in the desert. It bacame apparent rather quickly that we simply didn’t have time to do this and had decided against us.

He then started calling us a couple of times a day with new itinerary options until we eventually capitulated. However to do this we had to drive from the White Desert, near Daklha, to Dahab in a day – basically from the South-West corner of Egypt to the North-East corner. This being possible was pivotal to us being able to go to the desert with him. The next day we started driving at about 8 in the morning and didn’t arrive in Dahab until after 5 am the next morning. He had told us that we would be in Dahab by dinner time. If we had known that there was a 21 hr drive in the back of a trooper we would not have done it. 5 people in the back of one of those for an hour is uncomfortable – let alone 21 hrs.

This left us feeling totally ripped of (we didn’t think the price was all that cheap in the first place) and exhausted which affected our time in Dahab as well.

In short he left a very bad taste in our mouth.

… oh yeah, and he “propositioned” my 60 year old mother so he is quite sleazy as well!