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The House of Bondage

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [4635] | 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

Walk Like An Egyptian

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 | By langkawi21 | Views [1508] | Comments [4]

Assalamu Alaikum. We finally escaped the harshest winter in England for years on the 20th Jan for Luxor, Egypt - and we landed in heat!! Egypt was also the first country that we both looked like tourists unlike just Andrew in the last 5 months. ... Read more >

in the footsteps of lawrence of arabia

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 | By chloe | Views [964]

Made it into Jordan.....lots of waiting to have passports checked, ferries unloaded and reloaded and rough red seas but safe and sound in Aquaba....where you can see Egypt, Isreal, Jordan and Saudi Arabia! Drove to Wadi Rum in 4x4 jeeps. it is an ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

my first rollercoaster

Fri, 8 Jun 2007 | By hpsauce | Views [916]

This is the feeling I had as we careened through the streets of Cairo. The driving style there is similar to Indo, but they don´t even bother putting lines on the highways since they know noone follows them (which i thought was quite efficient). There ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

The fifth episode: The Pyramids of Cairo.

Tue, 3 May 2016 | By captainyeller | Views [565]

When I arrived in Cairo someone was waiting for me at the airport to arrenge my visa and drive me to my hotel. For traveling in Egypt I work with Kingfisher Tours. This is a local agency owned by Miriam, a woman from The Netherlands, living in Egypt ... Read more >

Catching a Moment - The Eyes of the Pyramid

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 | By | Views [405] | Scholarship Entry

You would have thought you could count on Cairo being hot, but it was a cool 15 degrees. Cryptic murmur of Egyptian Arabic all round. Walking head down and accompanied front, side and back by the implicit mass of humanity - caps, beards, skirts, sleeves, ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013