Continuing on with the White Desert stay...
So tour guide told us the sunrise was at 7am...lucky I woke up at 6:15am, because the sunrise was at 6:30am... so while the sun was rising, our driver and tour guide cont'd to sleep! How useful they are. The sunrise wasn't too spectacular though, maybe cuz I am all sunrised out, having seen it en route to Karnak, on the felucca, and on top of Mt Sinai. The white sand didn't really light up which I had been expecting....
To make it worse, the flies woke up, so me and my trusty sidekick unanimously decided to get the hell back to Cairo (so we don't have to wait until 3pm in the fly-infested hotel)... forget breakfast, let's head home! So with that, we woke the two sleepy heads up, told them we wanna head back... now apparently one of them lost their shoe to a fox who carried their shoe away at night. So what ended up happening was that me and my sidekick ended up packing up most of the sh*t with swollen face tour guide, while the driver scoured the desert for his shoe! (he didn't end up finding it)
Along the way back, we somehow ended up picking up some random guy at the checkpoint. No explanation why he ended up in our car, except the guy basically got a free ride to the village where the hotel was in...
So we woke them up, packed up tent, AND gave a ride to a hitchhiker... if I was an Egyptian, I would have gotten tons of tips!
Cutting our losses, we had to pay extra to get the morning bus, since the hotel owner had bought our 3pm ticket the day before (understandable since we changed our mind to leave for Cairo after the sunrise), but it was well worth it so we won't be forced to eat a 15 EGP lunch at the fly-infested inn facing that swollen faced tour guide.
So ends the Black and White Desert saga. Beautiful sky, but tons of flies!
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