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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | By adamkel | Views [9254] | Comments [1]
Friday, 23 February, off to Egypt. We will fly out from London Heathrow at 17.25 and arrive in what has been explained to me as ‘the filthiest city in the world’ ; Cairo at 20.45. I am expecting more than filth, I am expecting Cairo to be chaotic, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 | By writing_the_world | Views [3634] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
A Feast Fit for a Pharaoh Our taxi slams on its breaks, narrowly avoiding a malnourished donkey. Ironically, the scrawny animal draws a rusty oven of sweet potatoes mounted on wonky wheels. "It's the batata man!" announces the driver. Suddenly he pulls ... Read more >
Tags: #2012writing, cairo, egypt, food, travel writing scholarship, travel writing scholarship 2012, travelwriting
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 | By colleen_finn | Views [1691]
I've discovered that I really like the sound of the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer. The sound has a peaceful quality to it that I find soothing. I imagine it would be easy to live here without a watch and instead keep time according to the sonorous ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, sightseeing
Wed, 14 May 2008 | By catherine_and_james | Views [1221]
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 >
Sat, 5 Jun 2010 | By cherylb | Views [1133]
Cairo far exceeded our expectations. After reading many bad reports on Tripadvisor about taxi rip offs, theft from hotels, being hassled by purveyors of fine goods, I was a bit trepidatious... but we had an amazing experience! Our hotel room had ... Read more >
Tags: cairo, egypt, pyramids
Thu, 2 Mar 2017 | By asmaamaher | Views [938]
January 1, 2017
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Asmaa Maher
During the Past 5 Years and after my father's death, i rolled myself into a deep grief and decided to get away from people, ... Read more >
Tags: egypt, hiking, inspiration, love, mountains, peace, sinai, stars, stcatherine, thisisegypt
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By megan_skinner | Views [715]
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, 19 Jun 2010 | By drmitch | Views [681]
After three months of slaving away in the UK it was time for my first real
holiday (one asting more than three days this time). My bags were packed, I’d
bribed a nurse into dropping me off at the bus station and I was off…to EGYPT! As most
of ... Read more >
Tags: airport, cairo, egypt, hotel pharaoh
Tue, 18 May 2010 | By todd-holly | Views [464]
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 >
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By | Views [341] | Scholarship Entry
When I was young, a Japanese cartoon called “Faroh’s curse” was the most popular and it was my inspiration to visit Egypt. I dreamed to walk around the pyramid where Faroh Memphis and Carol met, float in the Nile river that brought her to him and see ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Sun, 4 Nov 2012 | By eastbound | Views [281]
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 >
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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