Balat Warnings Or Dangers

During our trip in the western desert we feel very save with or without escort. Sometimes we had an escort, sometimes we had not and we didn't know why we had or not.

On the way to Mut and leaving Mut we didn't have an escort. In Mut in the morning there was an armed policemen with a car for escort. He looked at us and then disappeared for ever without saying anything. After Balat we were escorted by a Toyota pickup, at the next checkpoint exchanged by a car with 4 policemen with a sounded siren. This car disappeared all of the sudden at a next checkpoint. When we stopped near a big dune, suddenly a jeep with 7 soldiers appeared and start to escort us ....