They kept asking if my visa from last time was my new
one, no matter how many times I told them I needed to buy one. In the end, they
stamped me in, and as they didn’t have any stickers, added a note to the stamp
in Arabic that said to issue me the sticker and take payment in Cairo.
Ruth had
an e-visa, and we were pretty sure this must have been the first time anyone
had come through this particularly checkpoint with one from the amount of
confusion that that caused them. But, stamps obtained, we could finally head
out into Aswan.
(to be continued)
