view on some tombs









on the way up to the high sacrifice place










early morning, around 7:30

Colours in Petra

Colours in Petra

Snow on the road to Petra

the treasury

first view on the treasury in Petra after walking through a 1200m long, narrow canyon

colours in Petra

walking through the canyon

I'm going to leave Cairo tomorrow, probably around evening to take the nightbus to Nuveiba and from there the ferry to Aqaba in Jordan on Sunday around noon. There I'll first go to Wadi Rum on Monday and afterwards for 2 days to Petra (Wadi Musa).

Yeah!! - finally some good news: after fights with the main post office in Cairo, several advise-sessions from the German embassy and a final talk to one boss at the main post office I got my passport back - and the Syrian visa is inside!! I really don't know what they planned to do with my passport because they kept it at the post office since four days now and didn't even send it to the National Security Service - but whatever, I'll probably never get to know what this whole chaos was about... So I'm free now to finally continue my trip and I decided to leave Cairo probably on Saturday. After almost three weeks here (and more than four in total) there are some people here I have to see before leaving - and now I'm much more relaxed because I can leave whenever I want.

Now I'm really in a big shit: the Egyptian authorities confiscated my passport from the post. It's at the National Security Service now and they want to check it - and they said it will take two months to get it back!!!
Tomorrow I'll go to the German embassy, hope they can help me to leave this f*** country - I feel like the Egyptian authorities should better solve their problems with terrorists than bother harmless German tourists who only want to leave this country!!
Does anybody of you have connections to the Egyptian National Security Service????