The route and a diet for our guide

We finally completed our travel itinerary for the whole trip this afternoon, as we need to include this when we apply for our visas tomorrow. Looks like the last part of the trip is going to be exciting… particularly the Northern part of Ethiopia and the desert strech in Egypt.

As we plotted the route, we checked Mike Copeland’s Cape to Cairo book from 2003 and the Africa Lonely Planet for accomodation and must see sights. The latter is quite a substantial piece of cut down tree, which I quickly put on an extensive diet in order for us to invite it along. Below the process:

The result…

…and a new title: Lonely Planet Africa – Cape 2 Cairo, the Slim Edition