My flights for the trip were:

1. Flying EgyptAir (MS) from Dubai to N'Djamena via Cairo (DXB-CAI-NDJ).
2. Flying Air Maroc (AT) from N'Djamena to Nouakchott via Casablanca (NDJ-CMN-NKC).
3. Flying Air Maroc (AT) from Dakar to Niamey via Casablanca and Ouagadougou (DKR-CMN-OUA-NIM).
4. Flying Ethiopian Airlines (ET) from Niamey to Dubai via Addis Ababa (NIM-ADD-DXB).




Day 1.

Arriving at Dubai Airport's Terminal 1 at 2:30am for my early morning flight.


With my boarding passes for my flight to Cairo and then onto N'Djamena, the Capital of Chad.


Hot breakfast on the EgyptAir 737 flight to Cairo.


Making a transfer at Cairo Airport. The last time I was here was back in 2007 on my visit to Egypt.


Boarding an EgyptAir A320 at a remote gate on a cloudy Cairo morning.


Just after take-off from CAI.


The chicken hot meal option on the ~4.5 hour flight.


Flying over the Chari River separating Cameroon (right) and Chad (left) on approach to N'Djamena International Airport.


After passing through immigration I met up with the manager of the hotel I was staying at, a Frenchman called Claude, as well as the guide and driver and set off for the drive north.