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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 | By colleen_finn | Views [1015]
The travel gods, fickle deities that they are, both giveth and taketh away. On a packed flight to JFK, I was seated with one passenger who was very territorial about the armrests. The other passenger in my row slept for most of the flight, head thrown ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 | By colleen_finn | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By nick_earl | Views [1135] | 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 >
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [906] | 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 >
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [955]
after visiting st. katherine's monastery, we drove 2.5 hours to nuweiba on the coast of the gulf of aqaba, which is a finger of the red sea between egypt and saudi arabia. decending down into nuweiba we had our first glimpses of the mountains of saudi ... Read more >
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [972] | 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, camel rides, feluccas, luxor, pyramids
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [685]
we left cairo on the 2nd for the sinai peninsula, but i thought it was worth mentioning our dinner in cairo on the 1st (happy birthday dad!). we decided we had to try pigeon, an egyptian favorite, before we left cairo so we headed to the islamic quarter ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [715]
OK! So looking at the last blog entry for where we left off... ah, the White Desert. Well, quite a lot has happened since then, so let's get to it before our time at the internet cafe runs out. I'll gloss over a bit, as I am going to try and cover ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By blackbs2 | Views [2387] | 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: bahariya, black desert, white desert
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [682] | 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 >
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [381] | Comments [2]
yesterday was our first full day with our tour group. it has been hard to get used to in cairo where we spent so much time on our own exploring and what not, but it is definitely getting better. we got up first thing yesterday and headed out to the ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By rich | Views [422]
Time to head back to Cairo and so it's back on the train. We decide to take the sleeper train again, because we liked it on the way down and because we still can't get into true backpacker mode. It would be much cheaper to take the sitting train, but ... Read more >
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 | By rich | Views [1140]
We start the day by checking out of the boat and get straight onto the tour bus with our "guide-for-the-day" Marco. Our bags are packed on top of the bus, much to the displeasure of Alicia, who points out how frazzled they'll get in the Egyptian ... Read more >
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [653] | 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 >
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 | By rich | Photo Gallery
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