Here are some of the Egyptians and foreigners encountered by The Idiot when he concluded his walk across western Egypt to the Libya border. You can see them up close and personal when you scan the QR codes in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean. The final volume of the trilogy about the Idiot’s twenty-year walk around the Mediterranean was published last month and is available on amazon.
A young shepherd named Faisal invited The Idiot, his MedTrekking partner Michael Knipe and three members of their armed escort for tea on a sprawling carpet outside his home at the tip of Ras El Hekman Peninsula just east of Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)
A mother and her children on the beach in downtown Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
A member of The Idiot’s armed escort relaxes on Cleopatra Beach west of Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
An Egyptian woman’s hand on a bus in western Egypt.
Getting a shave in Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
The Idiot met a wide variety of people when he followed the footsteps of Alexander the Great south of the Mediterranean Sea to the Siwa Oasis in the Sahara Desert near the Libya border.
The first person The Idiot met in Siwa was Khaled Maraki at the Albabenshal Hotel. Khaled became The Idiot’s “fixer” during his week in Siwa.
The Idiot watched Robynn Iwata observe the equinox sunrise from the Timasirayn Temple outside Siwa.
The Idiot constantly had this Siwan make him fresh sugar cane juice .
The Idiot met Monika Sleszynska, whom he nicknamed “The Woman in the Headscarf,” in the Temple of the Oracle in Siwa.
The idiot climbed the Adrere Amella mountain with Italian journalist and filmmaker Ines Della Valle.
(Photo: Monika Sleszynska)
The Idiot visited the desert surrounding Siwa with ace guide Fathi Abdalla Benhgar.
The Idiot left Siwa to return to Mersa Matruh and resume his MedTrek west to the Libya border.
(Photo: Monika Sleszynska)
The Idiot had his last lunch in Cairo with Californian motorcyclist Nicole Stavro Espinosa.
Read more about The Idiot’s walk across Egypt by buying a copy of The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean on amazon.
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