{"id":371,"date":"2010-12-11T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldbiking.info\/wordpress\/?p=371"},"modified":"2010-12-13T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:09:08","slug":"random-rewind-bicycle-touring-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldbiking.info\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/random-rewind-bicycle-touring-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Rewind: Bicycle Touring in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly two years ago we were slogging our way through Sudan\u2019s Nubian \u00a0desert<\/a> on our way to Egypt<\/a>.\u00a0 Looking back, my most vivid Egypt memories are of the wacky sculptures of the White Desert, the amazing temples at Luxor and the endless supply of hot water that poured out of the taps in our hotel in Aswan.<\/p>\n

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Cycling the White Desert in Egypt. Those wacky sculptures are not snow,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sunrise on the Nile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Even biking through Egypt's Western Desert, we were able to fill up our water bottles at regular police check points.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Actually, it\u2019s the endless supply of water that I most remember.\u00a0 Every time I turned the taps, water came gushing out of the spigot.\u00a0 There were no pumps to push.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to trek down to a river with a bucket to fetch my bath water.\u00a0 There was no question of filling up my bottles with stagnate water stored in a rusty oil drum.\u00a0 And I definitely wouldn\u2019t have to dig in a dry river bed<\/a> to quench my thirst.<\/p>\n

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In Africa, a crowd usually gathers when we stop by the local village pump to fill up our water bottles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Before setting off to cycle Africa, we never imagined scooping water out of a dry riverbed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Anyone who cycles Africa will never again take the availability of water for granted.<\/p>\n

Reaching Egypt meant a return to the easy life.\u00a0 Sure there was poverty, but nobody was visibly starving. Food was plentiful, the state supplied water and the locals tried to rip off the tourists.\u00a0 It was a real change from the rest of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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