{"id":564,"date":"2014-05-20T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:32:35","slug":"day-40-aswan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Day 40 &#8211; Aswan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>11274 km from from Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>WAITING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our friend Kamal picked us up and we went through to the customs and stated the old slow process of the carnets. An added Egyptian layer to the beurocracy is that you have to buy Egyptian License plates and afix these over the originals.<br \/>\nAll this of course was done by Kamal and it just took time but finally he announced we could get our bikes and go. We were indeed lucky as there are examples of the whole people-on-ferry, bikes-on-barge story taking up to a week! Too late for riding anywhere we are staying another night and I have started feeling pretty grim and am joining Sierra in the sick bay.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Tango<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1030\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1030\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Tired but happy to be back in civilization\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_40_20140508_072740_k_imgp0875.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tired but happy to be back in civilization<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11274 km from from Cape Town WAITING Our friend Kamal picked us up and we went through to the customs and stated the old slow process of the carnets. An added Egyptian layer to the beurocracy is that you have to buy Egyptian License plates and afix these over the originals. All this of course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}