Destination: Egypt

Pyramids and Mt Sinai

Sun, 25 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Views [2161]

How exciting! We got to see the pyramids in real life! And we marvelled at how they could possibly have been built, and how they have lasted thousands of years of sun and wind and sand. Just amazing. From the outside. Going inside is like crawling ... Read more >

Gallery: Egypt

Sat, 24 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Photo Gallery

Valley of the Kings

Mon, 19 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Views [1438]

Public transport from isolated diving camps in the desert of southern Egypt is understandably pretty scarce. So all things considered, I think we did pretty well to get to Luxor at all. The story goes like this: 10pm Tuesday - get in clapped out old ... Read more >

The Red Sea without the diver soup

Fri, 16 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Views [964]

Forget the endless stream of day boats clogging up the dive sites at Sharm. For the entire time we were diving the Fury Shoals at Wadi Lahami we shared the water with no more than 5 other divers! We basically had the entire resort to ourselves too! It ... Read more >

Gallery: Anubis, Jackal-God of Egypt

Fri, 16 May 2008 | By sstolper | Photo Gallery

Walk like an Egyptian

Wed, 14 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Views [1196]

Egypt is a land of package tourists. Which is both good and bad for us independent travellers. Good at the airport when the ENTIRE plane lined up at their tour operator's booth, and we got to stroll up to the visa counter and money exchange counter, ... Read more >

Fire Blast in terrorist attack

Wed, 7 May 2008 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2076]

I was lucky to survive a fire blast in Egypt, where I was admitted to hospital in a town close to Dahab, with neck, face and leg injuries. I was diagnosed with a fracture dislocation in the right shoulder and arm, lacerations all over my body and a broken ... Read more >

Tags: claim, egypt, hospitals & health, injury, medical, true claim stories, world nomads

Gallery: Engineering an Empire

Wed, 7 May 2008 | By sstolper | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Three Countries and a Gulf of Aqaba

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Photo Gallery

On the Cusp of Africa

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [1527] | 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

The House of Bondage

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [4501] | 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

Gallery: MY REAL PHOTO

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 | By moyolove | Photo Gallery

Alexandria the Great

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By jreuter | Views [5005] | Comments [2]

Arriving in Alexandria was an initially morose and depressing experience for me.  After all, this was the intellectual center of the Hellenistic world, home to the legendary Cleopatra.  Founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, Alexandria boasted of monuments ... Read more >

Gallery: Alexandria

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By jreuter | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Giza Plateau

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 | By jreuter | Photo Gallery