2390, a MAN/Ghabbour coach

?Hashim Bus?

Bahi Travel, Luxor LUX 2091, an older Mercedes

Bahi Travel, Luxor LUX 2091, an older Mercedes

Blue Sky 141 ([Luxor] 242) and 398 are rare Volvos, pictured in the Valley of the Kings. They are two of a batch of 20 Brazilian-built B12Rs fitted with Egyptian Ghabbour bodies.

Blue Sky RS 398, a Brazilian Volvo B12R with Ghabbour bodywork

Blue Sky RS 398, a Brazilian-built Volvo B12R with Ghabbour bodywork

Blue Sky RS 428, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Blue Sky, Luxor RS 427

Cairo Express at the end of its journey to Luxor

Cairo Express Travel RS 180, an Iveco/Noge EuroRider 35 seen in Hurghada

Car running the wrong way on the dual carriageway between Safarga and El Gouna

Car running the wrong way on the dual carriageway between Safarga and El Gouna

Car running the wrong way on the dual carriageway between Safarga and El Gouna

Car running the wrong way on the dual carriageway between Safarga and El Gouna. The true carriageway is on the far left

Convoy preparations in luxor

Convoy runs are often six or seven hours with a single driver, and a couple of brief breaks - then back home again.

Driver on the convoy

Eastmar, Egypt RS 510 at the El Gouna Moevenpick hotel

Egypt RS 812, a Mercedes with MCV bodywork

Egypt RS 919 is an MCV 500, a high-bodied version of the standard MCV body fitted in the early Millennium on Mercedes benz coaches

Egypt SINS 10017, an Isuzu pictured in Luxor

Egyptian Mercedes Benz at Luxor

Four Mercedes/MCVs and four camels in the Western desert

Isis Travel 1419 in the coach park at the Valley of the Kings

LUX 2968, a Mitsubishi Asia in Luxor after the 400-mile run from Cairo.

LUX 3870, a refronted Scania/Ghabbour runs through Luxor

Luxor 211 (Mercedes/MCV 400 ) and 4512 (Mercedes/MCV 500), 217 (Mitsubishi Asia), 213 (Scania/Ghabbour) plus two unidentified vehicles

Mercedes/MCV in the desert near El Gouna

Mitsubishi Asia 213 and Scania 293 with an unidentified 51

New Viking Transport, Egypt 662, a Scania photographed in the Valley of the Kings

Newly-imported Renault FR1 with temporary registration 7, partly concealing its previous French registration 34.. ..53

Planet Tours, Luxor LU 1620

Reufa Reisen-liveried Mercedes/MCV coach. Note the large deflector to bounce stones over the screen.

RS 303, a Mercedes Benz O400 with MCV coachwork

RS 932, another Mercedes/MCV

Security toll on the Safarga - El Gouna

Seta First Travel LUX 176 near the Sonesta St George in Luxor

SINS 10017, an Isuzu with El Waha B-type Challenger bodywork

Speedo Transport [Luxor] 91

Speedo Transport [Luxor] 91 (91), one of a reduced fleet of Scanias operating around Luxor

Speedo [Luxor] 217, a Mitsubishi Asia

Spring Tours, Luxor C 3581, a Mercedes with MCV bodywork

Spring Tours, Luxor [Luxor] 303, a Mercedes with two-door MCV bodywork

Trans Africa lorry F812 FKV, showing by its British registration that it has been imported in into Egypt. Here it was pictured at Hurghada during a break in the journey.

Trans Africa lorry F812 FKV, showing by its British registration that it has been imported in to Egypt. Note the emergency equipment in case the H-registered vehicle ends up in a deep sand drift.

Travco C 529. It is a veteran Scania K112 with Ghabbour bodywork (recently modernised) operating for Thomson Holidays in Tui livery and leaving from the Sheraton Hotel in Luxor

Travco C 1111, an S215HR which has operated around Luxor for several years

Travco C 337 in Tui livery. It was a Mercedes Benz 0303S with Turkish Ottoman bodywork

Travco C 352 in Tui colours

Travco C 4127, a Mercedes/MCV

Travco C 4127, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco C 4127, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco Mercedes 0303 at Luxor International Airport, ferrying Thomson holidaymakers

Travco Mercedes 0400/MCV

Travco RS 171 sports Tui promotional livery. It is a refronted Ghabbour-bodied Scania K112.

Travco RS 303, sporting the Tui livery although operated by Travco, picks up at the El Gouna Moevenpick hotel at the start opf the 5 hr 50 minutes dash to Luxor

Travco RS 307, a Mercedes Benz/MCV 500 coach wearing Tui livery

Travco RS 427, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco RS 449

Travco RS 591 with patient Egyptian camel and young Bedouin

Travco RS 591, during the 25-minute comfort stop between Luxor and Safarga

Travco RS 608

Travco RS 608, one of the large fleet of Mercedes-Benx with MCV bodywork

Travco RS 667 and other vehicles at the crossover refreshment and comfort break between Safarga and Luxor.

Travco RS 708, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco RS 804, a Mercedes 0400/MCV

Travco RS 810, a Mercedes/MCV in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco RS 812, a Mercedes/MCV 400

Travco RS 820, an early Mercedes 0400/MCV with the rear door behind the axle. It was pictured awaiting for tourists in the Luxor International Airport coach station

Travco RS 825