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Day Tripping to Saqqara, Memphis, and Dahshur
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 4 February 2012
For most visitors, the highlight of a trip to Cairo is almost always the majestic pyramids on the Giza plateau and the Sphinx. As this spot is always on the top of must see lists, it is not uncommon for it to be the very first place all travelers in Egypt visit. As I was
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Egypt – A photographic journey
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 8 January 2012
Are you ready to see a different side of Egypt? Being our second time visiting this Middle Eastern jewel gave us the chance to look at it with a different set of eyes. Yes, the pyramids are mesmerizing, but having seen them before, we could look beyond their majesty and take in the atmosphere around us.
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Are You Up For the Big Challenge in 2012?
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 7 January 2012
In 2008 we took a big challenge and road our bicycles from Cairo to Cape Town. It cost us a lot of money and we didn’t know how things would turn out after our 4 months in Africa. All we knew was that we needed to change our lives, so we took a chance and [...]
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Air Pollution in Cairo – Yep it’s Still There
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 6 January 2012
People smoke a lot in Cairo. it. It is said that living in Cairo is the equivalent of smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day. Between the actual cigarette smoking and the air pollution, our lungs took a beating.
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Talkin' bout a Revolution
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 19 December 2011
Logic might dictate, that a normal person with R&R from their job in Iraq might seek out something a little on the tame, serene or pampering side. I've been called a many things in my time, but logical or normal are not leading exemplars to describe me.
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I Don't Want a Freakin' Camel Ride!!!!!!
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 18 December 2011
Alright, I all makes perfect sense. Several 5,000 year old geometric shapes in the middle of a desert are an undeniable tourism draw. A culture of trading will most certainly continue a trend of trying to get the best price for their wares.
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Adventures in Egypt? King Tut and Walking Like an Egyptian
Blog: Vagobond.com - 13 December 2011
A trip to Egypt has been something I've dreamed about since I was a child and watched excitedly on television as they explored the Treasures of Tutankhamun on National Geographic in the 1970's.
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Cairo, Stencil City
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 13 November 2011
I landed in Cairo like something shot out the bottom of a waterslide: a sharp gasp and splash of forward momentum, wedgie-style with a sting up the nose, blinking, shaking water from my ear for the four days. Completely unprepared, and didn’t know what to expect, except that I hadn’t even given it enough mental [...]
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An Anti-Social Trip to the Pyramids (In 5 Senses)
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 10 November 2011
Feel: Dusty wind on my cheeks, rustling through my hair—a bad place for contact lenses. A watery ouch, blinking madly. Arms poking at me, fingers tapping—shove a postcard book in my face and flap it around. Smell: Camel shit, horse shit—a stink, yes, but it’s a healthy, robust stink, blooming in the heat. Think of [...]
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Travel to Egypt Changes Lives
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 14 October 2011
Destination: Egypt Book: The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Org. publ. 2009; NEW U. S. paperback edition) A tour of the Nile River to Luxor sounds pretty exotic even in the 21st century. But just imagine the adventure and hardship of such travel in the 19th century. The historical travel novel lets us see [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library. We'll leave a light on for you.
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How to Negotiate A Camel Ride to the Great Pyramids
Blog: GoBackpacking - 27 June 2011
Tips for getting a good deal on your camel tour of the Great Pyramids.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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From Baksheesh to Sheesha – A Few Unexpected Memories of Egypt
Blog: GoBackpacking - 30 May 2011
Mark recounts some unexpected discoveries he made while visiting Egypt.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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The Arab Spring, and Bringing Tourism back to Egypt
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 11 May 2011
If I said “Egypt,” what one word would pop into your head? For me, before the last few days, I would have blurted, “Revolution. In search of the new Egypt, I boarded an Egypt Air flight out of New York City and jetted to Cairo.
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24 Hours in Cairo, Egypt
Blog: WildJunket - 22 April 2011
Let´s take a break from my journals on Asturias and head back to Egypt. This is a sponsored guest post by Cheri Felix. I believe in full disclosure, so let me confess: I love Egypt. And not in the “I once had a great time in Cairo” way but in a slightly obsessed way. I [...]
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Egypt: Still on Traveler’s Lists?
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 18 February 2011
Destination: Egypt Movies: Many Don’t Pay the Camel Driver until You Get to the Pyramid Guest Post by Traveler's Bro "About Egypt I shall have a great deal more to relate because of a number of remarkable things which the country contains..." Herodotus, The Histories American travelers seeking to break through to the “real” Egypt [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Taking Toddlers to Egypt
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 14 February 2011
Three months ago, we took our toddlers to Egypt. This was obviously before the protests, political upheaval, and violence broke out, but Egypt was, and hopefully will be again, a great destination for families. Here were some of the highlights of our trip.
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#Egypt #Egypt #Egypt!
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 11 February 2011
I’m always surprised when I see a picture of Cairo and it isn’t sepia-toned. Not from some nostalgic glow, but from the dirt. The city, in my memory, is an even dull beige. That’s because it’s freshly coated every spring with a layer of dust from the khamsin wind, and never fully scrubbed clean. Sand [...]
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Protests and Promise in Jordan
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 11 February 2011
By Alex Silversmith, KF14, Jordan As protests carry on and promises continue to be broken in Cairo, one bank that serves the poor in neighboring Jordan has found an innovative way to help make sure that promises are kept. In Egypt, 18 days of consecutive protest have followed January 25th, when Egyptians demanded President Hosni [...]
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Featured image 12 – Cairo, past and present
Blog: photito's blog - 2 February 2011
Cairo blues. It is impossible not to think about the Cairenes at the moment. They are rebelling against a leadership they don’t want. As I am writing these words the news is filled with headlines like “Anger in Cairo” and … Continue reading →
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Cairo – A City Which Needs No Introduction
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 16 January 2011
Our final stop before flying back to Canada was going to be the infamous city of Cairo. Known for its great ancient sites as well as its chaotic streets and bustling markets, Cairo is a city which needs no introduction. Here is a photoset from our last few days exploring Cairo.
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The Tour d’Afrique: The Trip that Changed our Lives, Three Years Later
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 15 January 2011
The Tour d’Afrique 2011 kicks off today in Cairo, Egypt. It was this time three years ago that we started our transformation from working class career oriented professionals to adventurers and full time travel bloggers. It started out as a New Years Resolution on the eve of 2008. We were feeling blue after 2 years of working too hard and traveling too little. We were stuck in a rut. It was just after midnight on a very gloomy New Years Eve for us. We were watching TV and luckily a profile of ultra marathon runner Ray Zahab came on the CBC.
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Top 10 Literary Travel Books of 2010
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 28 December 2010
One of the pleasures of travel is reading a good book set in the country you are visiting. A well-written book adds context to the things that you are seeing everyday and allows you to understand more of the culture. David Bennett at Quillcards, left a comment on this blog when talking about how learning about a country enhances your experience of it. He used the phrase “knowledge puts depth into a flat landscape,” which I think is a great way to sum it up.
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Conned in Cairo, and a Mexico connection
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 19 November 2010
I’m just back from Mexico and catching up on a lot. Happened to read this truly excellent essay at Perceptive Travel about getting conned in Cairo–and the surprising value in it. Cairo is really a test of travel skills–if you keep your guard up too much, you miss the good stuff. In this situation, I [...]
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The Unpublished 8: Sham El Nessim, Egypt’s Rite of Spring
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 29 October 2010
As it's spring here in the southern hemisphere, I was reminded of this piece about a memorable Egyptian rite of spring I wrote some years ago, though it was never published. Enjoy...
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Photos: Cairo Train Station
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 29 September 2010
This is our train as it pulled into the Cairo train station. We took an overnight train from Cairo to Aswan. The private 2-person sleeping compartment was surprisingly nice. Not to the standards of a luxury European train or anything, but better than the sleeping compartments we experienced elsewhere in Africa and Asia. Tagged: blogsherpa, [...]
