Difficult, dry, and spectacularly different: This is Egypt by bike

Not content with heading to Egypt in search of the famous sights, Lola Akinmade Åkerström opted for a once-in-a-lifetime two-wheeled excursion instead. And, despite the blistering heat, she lived to tell the tale.  

It’s 2010 and our motley crew of cyclists has assembled in Egypt.

There’s Charlie, a professional
cyclist in his 40s; Jayme, an adventure writer in her 30s; Alpha, a triathlete
in her 70s; our local fixer Tamir; a handful of other adventure travelers who’d
collectively logged thousands of kilometers mountain-biking around the world—and
then there’s me.

On paper, our plan of riding
between 120-150 kilometers over eight days didn’t seem all that strenuous. But,
upon closer inspection of the facts (mainly, that we’d be biking through open
desert while enduring 100+ degree Fahrenheit heat, with zero reprieve from the
beating sun), it’s all beginning to seem a little
more strenuous.

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