Dune driving with Hein and Noel

Last weekend we went to the desert around Fayoum, to camp at out most favourite campsite at an oasis in a beautiful dune field. Hein en Noel are visiting us from the US and indicated that they liked our desert camping proposal. So this was a good opportunity for Ramses (our Landrover) to show them a bit of Egyptian desert. Paul, Petra, Fenna and David joined us in their Prado.

Sunset in the dune near our campsite (left to right Jurriaan, Corine, Hein & Noel)

On the second day weather turned out to be very hot (46C!) and windy, so it is like having 10 hairdryers at maximum power around you when you walk outside. Luckily we did not get stuck in the sand so severily that a lot of digging was involved, so most of the time we could stay in the shade of our car. On the way we saw a WWII petrol can, and when we lifted it from the sand we saw our first wild scorpion in Egypt.

Wild Scorpion

We will post more pictures soon. Paul and Petra have put a nice collection of pictures on their website already.