Destination: Egypt
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Sun, 2 Dec 2001 | By stowaway | Views [1240] | Comments [8]
Meanwhile, back in Aswan, Batman prepares to escape from the clutches of the dreaded tourist police jokers by leaping onto the BatBoat... Well, perhaps it wasn't quite the Batboat, but we did sail a Felucca (small single-masted sailboat) down the ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, egypt, tomb, tutankhelvis, pyramids, aswan, felucca, nile, cairo, sphinx
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By disa | Views [164] | Comments [7]
Erum i Aswan og eftir hadegismat forum i dag med motorbat ut a Nil og sigldum hja Elephant island - fengum gamlan Nubia leidsogumann um bord sem fraeddi okkur. Forum sidan i litla vik thar sem vid skelltum okkur til sunds i Nil - sem medan eg man er ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 | By jreuter | Views [625] | Comments [5]
I'm not sure why, but for some reason, a dinner cruise along the Nile sounded like fun last night. So I threw down my 120 pounds, put on a nice shirt, and almost immediately regretted my decision. It seems I was the only one at my hotel who signed ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 | By keera | Views [468] | Comments [5]
Tuesday 21st March So, i arrived no problems at the Cairo airport at 1.30am and was met by the gobus rep, Allad who got me a visa etc easily. He told me that another rep, Narelle would meet me in the reception of the hotel at 10.30am. I slept like ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By disa | Views [186] | Comments [5]
I morgun logdum vid af stad i Felucca ferdina godu sem gengur ut a ad slappa af um bord i Feluccunni (litill seglbatur) og sigla nidur Nil og stoppa her og thar fyrir naudsynlegar pissupasur og sund i Nil (ekki gert a sama tima!). Thessi hvild var ... Read more >
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 | By jess_dan | Views [108] | Comments [5]
Dear all, the real fun has begun!Together we made our way out to heathrow airport, however because amy had joined our plans later on we were on separate flights.However I definately think she booked the better deal, what she thought was economy was ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 | By stowaway | Views [1339] | Comments [4]
Then it was off to Wadi Rum , a desert region of sand dunes and impressive vertical rock mountains made famous by the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, who used it as a base during WW1, and also lived there for some time after the end of the war. It ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, egypt, wadi rum, bedouin, ramses, cairo, pyramids, lawrence of arabia, bedouin, abu simbel
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [181] | Comments [4]
Wow there is so much to say! Hopefully I get all the main points and you can get an idea of our experience. Yesterday morning a driver arrived bright and early at our hostel to drive us out to Oases to meet our jeep to the white desert. it took an ... Read more >
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By disa | Views [169] | Comments [4]
Eg er med Sue i herbergi sem er mjog fin, hun er fra Adelaide i Astraliu og verdur 45 i thessari ferd, thegar vid verdum i Tyrklandi. Hun hefur ferdast med Intrepid adur, til Indlands, Laos, Thailands og Vietnam. Hun kom upp i herbergi ad morgni fyrsta ... Read more >
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [152] | Comments [4]
we caught our train to aswan last night at about 9:30. mon and i shared a cabin which was actually pretty nice- our own sink and two beds, one of which turned into seats for when we werent sleeping. after about 5 mins on the train the attendant came ... Read more >
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 | By jess_dan | Views [104] | Comments [4]
Dear all, Wednesday 7 th October I’m writing this from our carriage on the overnight sleeper train from Cairo to Aswan. Havn’t slept on a train before but the after the huge activities of yesterday we all slept like logs. It was a set of very comfortable ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [892] | Comments [3]
Hello everyone from Aswan, Egypt's southern most city! But first, let me back up a few days... Oct 24th: Today, the four of us headed out to the White Desert! Monica, after watching the desert section of Planet Earth, booked us a tour with a seemingly ... Read more >
Tags: white desert, bahariya, black desert
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 | By keera | Views [527] | Comments [3]
We stayed in Dahab from then (friday) until Monday afternoon when we took the bus to Cairo. Dahab, was, as usual, very laid back and fun. We spent our time swimming, tanning, and drinking thickshakes at Al Capone's. It did get a little annoying having ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [208] | Comments [3]
Cairo is a loud, HUGE, rambuncticous, dirty, old, hustling, crowded (17.8 million people in the metropolitan area), amazing city. And we have fallen in love with this place.
First off, we are safe and sound after a harrowing taxi ride into the ... Read more >
Tags: egypt, cairo, market, minaret
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 | By disa | Views [165] | Comments [3]
Thetta er dagurinn sem vid forum a strondina :D Thetta er dagurinn sem eg aetla ad snorkla i fyrsta skipti (kominn timi til, segir einhver!). Thetta verdur fyrsta nottin min i bambuskofa .... a strondinni! Thetta verdur i fyrsta skipti sem eg kem til ... Read more >
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 | By monicaraye | Views [141] | Comments [3]
Hello everyone, I am now in Egypt! Cairo specifically. Met up with my buddies, megan, shannon and marshall and it is so good to see them, it is surreal to to walking through the streets of cario all of us, it is crazy and wonderful. the city is ... Read more >
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [121] | Comments [3]
OK! Sorry for the delay with posting, finding a reliable internet cafe has been a bit difficult. The government firewall here in Syria makes it a bit difficult to connect to sites we want (including Facebook for some reason). The last time we wrote, ... Read more >
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [977] | Comments [2]
Let me see if I can paint this extraordinary picture properly. Just yesterday, I rode a train down the Nile Valley to Luxor, which was once known as Thebes, the legendary capital of Ancient Egypt's New Kingdom (think Ramesses and Tutankhamun). Now, ... Read more >
Tags: religion; history; culture
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [328] | Comments [2]
Chalk up the 3rd missed flight of my life. Not too good a record here, and that's not including all the trains and buses I've missed. But sitting on this balcony of the Hilton Hotel overlooking the Nile, I remember still how lucky I am to be here. Not ... Read more >
Tags: sights
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 | By jamie_candice | Views [302] | Comments [2]
Another cup of tea needed for part 2! After seeing the valley of the Kings we headed to our cruise boat where we were to sail up the Nile for a few nights. It was great because we had managed to get a 50 passenger boat all to ourselves only 16 ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 | By jamie_candice | Views [264] | Comments [2]
Before reading all: Get a cup of coffee/tea and make yourself comfortable. EGYPT - WHAT AN AMAZING PLACE! We arrived for our tour first night and met this guy from Townsville Tim and had a chat with him...ended up being a really good mate by the ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By nick_earl | Views [253] | Comments [2]
We are in Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. Here's a few extracts from the diary for Egypt. 29th October - The Cairo Taxi We hailed a cab, painted roughly black and white with standard array of dents, and did the normal haggling, messing around, ... Read more >
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 | By joealotto13 | Views [235] | Comments [2]
I've been in Dahab I think a week now. This is one of the places that you get here as a backpacker passing through, and then stay forever. I got here via bus from Luxor. It was an 18 hour bus ride overnight. They played Arabic movies, which mostly ... Read more >
Tags: dahab, egypt, diving, scuba, beach, sinai, gonna be an expat
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 | By chloe | Views [234] | Comments [2]
Well, arrived safe and sound....cairo is a caotic city where a 3 lane road is anything from a 2 lane to 5 lane road....the drivers just toot their horns to let you know they are there, crossing the road is a story for another time! Yesterday we went ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [204] | Comments [2]
So sorry we've been out of touch. A lot has been happening in regions sparse of Internet. Quick rundown... Oct 27th: Saw the pyramids and the sphinx. I even got to go inside one of the them! Very impressive. I have some awesome pictures because our ... Read more >
Tags: aswan, luxor, camel rides, feluccas, pyramids
