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????

I just heard about the explosion at Khan al-Khalili here in Cairo - I'm okay, though shocked because two days ago Rachid, Zoltan and me spent the whole day in this area because Rachid bought souvenirs - and almost everyday somebody I know from the hostel goes there. So now it's all about leaving this city...

I'm still still still in Cairo, still waiting for my passport. But until yesterday it was ok, just now things starte to change because first Rachid left and yesterday Zoltan, a guy from Berlin, with whom I spent a lot of time - now I feel like I should really leave as well.
But as you can see on the pictures I uploaded there are still things to do and to discover here - we visited some mosques, the citadell here in Cairo and one day I went with Zoltan out of Cairo into a semi-oasis called Fayum (about 80 km from Cairo). We had a nice day there, visited an old temple and just got out of the city for one day.
Not much more to tell this time, I just wanted to give a sign that I'm still alive.
Everybody in Koeln: Please drink and dance for me these Karneval-days!!

The roof-terrace of the hostel in Cairo where I stay now for the fourth time this trip (already since two weeks now)








Muhammad Ali Mosque inside the Citadell in Cairo













Inside the Muhammad Ali Mosque - just wow!!












Muhammad Ali Mosque

Inside the Citadell in Cairo, the oldest mosque in there from the 13th century











Sun goes down in Islamic Cairo






The courtyard of the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo










Inside the Ibn Tulun Mosque










in "garbage town"