Egpyt 5.8 -3fast 3furious-

The sequel to 2fast 2furiosu, this is 3fast 3furious!

Man-tai's skills was equal of any first class racing driver, he would has made a name for himself if there was a van racing F1. He knew this road like the back of his hand; he started braking before any obstacles were visible, very impressive! Road obstacles like train tracks are much bumpy than any speed bump, we almost hit our head to the Van's top, once man-tai failed to slow down in time.

15 minutes later, all others vehicles were completely out of sights, not even the police escort. Occasionally, we still bumped into local vehicles like this public bus. It was spectacular! My fren Judy F1, once travelled backpacking alone through Egypt. Not sure how she did it but that was superwoman effort.

Along the way I saw a lot of donkeys, most of them were carting weight 4-5times bigger than themselves. I wasn’t a donkey expert but this animal seems stronger than they look. This kinda makeshifts donkey's car were normal sights in Egypt rural areas.

I saw a lotta donkeys but not horses or camel. All donkey looks sad, even those who didnt need to work. They had this Sad looks that make me feel sad too. If horse is sportcar than donkey must be fuel-efficient car, donkey eat lot less than a horse. Ass!!!

Everything in Egypt was overweight like so0hai from Donkey to Lorry. This lorry looked dangerous and it took man-tai less than a second to overtake it. Although lorries travel overweighted here but road still better than Msia, not because semi-value didnt do a good job but because Egypt rained a lot less than Msia.

We stopped at a road block, it looks like one of the major one as there were more policemen there. Then a lotta "what if, what if" came to my mind. What if the policeman wasn’t a true policeman, what if he robbed us or kidnapped us? But if he did I won’t be able to write this piece.

Actually Mr. Police was taking his buka puasa dinner box. I felt really relieve after all he intended to buka puasa so he wasnt going to kidnap us. I think this "convoy thing" really messed up my mind, I wouldnt dare to work in Iraq anymore. A peace of mind is much more valuable than money!

Roadblocks... Roadblocks... Roadblocks...

There were at least 10 road blocks along the journey, some roadblocks there were policemen, some roadblocks were guarded by a man in local clothing holding a rifle and most of them were empty.

Man-tai was increasing speed as sun starting to set. It was the last day of Ramadan, maybe man-tai wanna buka puasa in Aswan and not the van. It was the begining of the next episode of “too fast too furious”, it was “3fast 3furious”. 120km/h is the normal speed in d0bye but 120km/h in Egypt outskirt that’s equal to 300km/h in d0bye highway!!! Egypt roads were not D0bye super smooth and wide roads, it was thin, sometimes crossing train tracks, cows, donkeys and peoples.

The sun was setting and it was a beautiful scenery but man-tai still speeding, I was pretty sure he wanted to break fast in Aswan but I think it wasn’t possible due to the 15min late take off time and almost an hour stopover at the coffee shop. I was very calm before man-tai increased speed but now he was going at 140kmh, i also sat still and looking ahead tensely! Sibei scare...

Since it was the last day of Ramadan, there were people breaking fast at the road side. Lotta them invited us to break fast with them by waving but man-tai never eased his foot on the paddle. It was scary because some of these road side people were so happy they walked in the mid of the road. The more the Sun set, the more man-tai stepped on the accelator.

We were travelling at 140km/h, at that neck breaking speed, I prayed our van has good brakes. Someone did suggest to man-tai to slow down but he didn’t seem to get it. 8 of us + Man-tai lifes were now at his skills and God mercy. Remember the 14 Chinese tourists killed between Hurghada and Luxor in an accident in February because of tackling a curve in high speed?