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On the Cusp of Africa

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 | By sstolper | Views [1591] | 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

Walk Like An Egyptian

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 | By langkawi21 | Views [1504] | 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 >

Eid Said!

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 | By divebunnie | Views [1477]

"Eid Said, Eid Mubarak" or "Happy Eid" whichever you prefer. So the holy month of Ramadan has come to an end, and my local friends and colleagues are in a celebratory mood. And this year I feel brings all the more cause for celebration.... Read more >

Tags: egypt, eid, ramadan

my first rollercoaster

Fri, 8 Jun 2007 | By hpsauce | Views [914]

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

Egypt - Cairo Days 1-2

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 | By krodin | Views [727]

Day 1 First Impressions and the Egyptian Museum Arrived on a KLM flight in the middle of the night and hoped that the agent with whom I’d been in online contact was actually going to be at the airport to meet me. The prospect of arriving at ... Read more >

Tags: city visit

Abu Simbel experience

Tue, 19 May 2015 | By garyburroughs | Views [674] | Scholarship Entry

The sun rises over the Western Desert as the train gently chugs out of Luxor on its 220 km journey south to Aswan. As I settle in for the 3 hour journey a minaret suddenly bursts into life, and the melodious words of the Muezzin calling the faithful to ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Travel Patterns

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 | By taroso | Views [668]

Deja Vu I keep seeing the same backpackers. Now admittedly I sometimes appear to be mildly prosopagnosic. For some reason it took me six months or so to learn to distinguish Sophie Marceau from Catherine Zeta Jones, and the words ... Read more >

Cairo Egypt

Tue, 18 May 2010 | By todd-holly | Views [489]

Cairo Egypt April 13 - 16 We’ll were back to the crazy 3rd world honking, heat, and cheap abandoned buildings of a hostel. We arrived in Cairo once again with our cab driver awaiting like promised by the hostel. He whisked us away at more than double ... Read more >

Valley of the Kings

Sun, 3 Jul 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [484]

Heaving on glops of suncreen and donning my Barmah kangaroo leather hat, I felt like Indiana Jones as I explored the Valley of the Kings and a lot in between today. After a few days in Aswan, last night I took the train to Luxor. My plan to sail on a ... Read more >

my world

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 | By bamboo | Views [367]

Mexican Taxi Stand-Off

Sun, 4 Nov 2012 | By eastbound | Views [301]

Day 9 – SAT - 22/9/12 – Wadi Rum, Jordan : Dahab, Egypt via Eilat, Israel and Taba, Egypt borders. After a staple Middle East breakfast of boiled eggs, pita, marmalade, juice and fruit we headed off to cross the desert in the ... Read more >

Filmmaker

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 | By motaz_abuyousef | Views [291] | Video | Scholarship Entry

I have experienced as a Filmmaker about 20 years,I want to increase my experience,I see that the working methods of the different,dentify the different cultures,Winning means a lot to me,For me it will create new ideas,And makes me more open to the world,Meet ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico

Landscapes

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 | By | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I believe that I have a deep passion in photography, I feel like I am over the sky when I get the chance to travel with my camera, it's the main reason I travel to any place even if I wasn't interested in it, Just knowing that I have the chance to capture ... Read more >
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship