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Cairo – Street Level
Blog: Leave Me Here - 21 September 2010
What goes on behind the Pyramids?.. The day I landed in Cairo, I walked out of the airport and there was a apocalyptic sand storm covering the whole city. My little taxi driver was waiting for me, and then off we headed into the abyss. I sat there in that taxi super excited, I couldn’t [...]
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Featured image 8 – Cairo coffee house
Blog: photito's blog - 19 September 2010
Cairo coffee houses are institutions rather than just places to grab a quick drink. There is chess playing going on, continuous shisha smoking and male bonding. “Fishawi’s” is the city’s most infamous coffe house, or ahwa, and possibly also the most photogenic one. However, a wander through Cairo’s back streets reveal ahwas stripped of tourists [...]
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Cairo, Egypt: The Art Of The Scam
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 18 September 2010
Our Metro train stopped at the Sadat station in Tahrir Square and we walked up the steps, anxious to be spending the day at the Egyptian Museum. As we ascended the last flight of steps, I made brief eye-contact with an Egyptian man in neatly-pressed western clothes walking near us. We now started to walk along Meret Basha, looking for the museum.
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The Cairo Metro: Protecting The Booty
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 4 September 2010
Sometimes a common objective is what brings a family closer together. While in the crowded Cairo Metro during rush hour, that shared goal brought us much, much closer together. The common objective in this case: protecting the derrière of our 12-year old daughter. We squeezed into the crowded subway car, three of us forming a protective triangle around my daughter. Thinking strategically, I took the aft, positioning myself at the area that was most vulnerable while my son and wife formed the other two points of the triangle.
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Daily Travel Photo – Cairo, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 27 August 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. Related posts:Daily Travel Photo – Mohamed Ali Mosque, Cairo Daily Travel Photo – Cairo, Egypt Daily Travel Photo – Cairo, Egypt
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A Blog for Chris (or, What to Pack for Egypt)
Blog: Honey Service Year - 2 July 2010
What to wear in Egypt? As per the general rule for short-term travelers, pack lightly and buy things there. Egypt is predominantly Muslim, so a headscarf will be necessary for visiting the many beautiful mosques. The headscarf may also make you feel more comfortable….all the girls are doing it! In the same cover-up style, most women wear long skirts and long-sleeve shirts. As a foreigner you
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Goodbye Underdeveloped Goodness
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 1 July 2010
6/22/10: Cairo, Egypt Another one of those lasts reared its ugly head today: last day in a non-English speaking, undeveloped country. I only suppose it was fitting that today really tested us in pretty much every aspect of world travel. Let me break down today’s post into categories: Sleeping in uncomfortable, moving objects Finding our [...]
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Shop/Walk/Eat Like an Egyptian
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 24 June 2010
6/14/10: Cairo, Egypt We started the day with a visit to Khan el-Khalili, a huge souk (market) in Cairo. We got straightforward directions from our hostel – “Turn left, just keep going straight, and it’s at the end of the bridge” – and after less than five minutes, came to the foot of the aforementioned [...]
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Our First World Wonder
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 23 June 2010
6/13/10: Cairo, Egypt Off the top of my head, I can think of three things we’ve seen during our trip that on paper make you go, “Man made that?? I’ll need to see it to believe it.” (To be fair, three is a low estimate – I could make a case for sites such as [...]
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Cairo: First Impressions
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 22 June 2010
6/12/10: Cairo, Egypt Traffic A lot of the places we’ve been have had insane traffic. Kevin, fearless and long-legged, adapted to this very quickly, and he was pretty much immediately able to cross crowded, eight-lane streets with ease. I, slow and panicky, took much longer to adapt. But by the time we got to Vietnam, [...]
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On “Vintage” Hotels
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 21 June 2010
This past winter, when we were in Bangkok and staying at the totally fabulous Hotel Atlanta, I realized there’s a very particular kind of lodging I like. For want of a better term, I think I’ll call them “vintage hotels.” “Antique hotels” might also work. “Nostalgia bivouacs” are what they really are. And the funny [...]
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Discovering Egypt: A Photo Story
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 18 June 2010
Discovering Egypt was a lot of fun. From Cairo to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt has so much to offer. Weather you are looking for adventure or luxury Egypt has it all.
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My Crazy and Somewhat Scary Experiences in the Middle East
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 17 June 2010
Whilst traveling the Middle East last year, I had this funny experience where if I had a haircut and shaved, everyone assumed I was from Israel, and if I allowed my hair to grow a little and didn’t shave for a while, everyone automatically assumed I was an Arab and starting talking to me as [...]
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Straying from the Asphalt
Blog: Honey Service Year - 12 June 2010
We have now passed through many tourist destinations of the world: The National Gallery in Washington D.C., USA; The Lucy Museum in Changsha, China; elaborate temples and parks in Bankok, Thailand; rock hewn churches and ancient lakes in Ethiopia; a slave fort museum in Cape Coast, Ghana; the Pyramids and Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt; and ancient Roman ruins in Turkey. We are tourists, oh
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Friday Flashback: Cairo, Camels & the Great Pyramids
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 June 2010
In 2001, I had plans to visit Egypt however 9/11 disrupted them and I’d had it on the back burner ever since. In December 2008, I flew Egypt Air from Jo’burg to Cairo. It was my first visit to a Middle Eastern country, and I was immediately struck by the dreariness of the Nile River [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Useful Public Art in the Mediterranean: Murals, Spray Can Art, Mosaics
Blog: Honey Service Year - 4 June 2010
Murals, spray can art (and illegal graffiti), signage, and public art all play such important roles in defining cities, towns, and urban cultures. Public art viewed from the point of view of the traveler can become windows into the cultural world around us. Art in all its forms enlivens places we visit. For protest, aesthetic, and celebration, they are windows into a new world. Intentional art
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An all inclusive adventure: Hurghada and Cairo, Egypt
Blog: The Amazing Dawdle - 26 May 2010
Hurghada
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Pose like an Egyptian
Blog: photito's blog - 26 May 2010
Sometimes you just have to take a good look at other tourists and have a really good laugh. After all we’re a funny lot in our desire to experience the world and ability to travel the globe to take in new and exotic places. Last month when we traveled to Egypt, we were hoping for [...]
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Eqyptian Charms
Blog: Honey Service Year - 23 May 2010
written by Nathan Cairo, Egypt land of ancient civilizations. We are feeling quite at home here. It is not just the cosmopolitan character of Cairo, the port city air of Alexandria, but the feeling of an Arabic Melting pot which has been so welcome to us. It is a megalopolis stretching from Cairo to the sea - diverse and developed, proud and confident. Life is a tangle of friendliness. The
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You look Egyptian
Blog: Honey Service Year - 21 May 2010
We could not have known, before coming here, that there are so many different looks of people in Egypt. Suddenly, we see the faces of so many people we have known. Blue, brown, and green eyes, blonds and brunettes, very pale and jet black complexions, broad, flat, and hooked noses. This is not how media or education portrays middle easterners.Differences of appearance are not only visible in skin
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Safety Tactics On Cairo Streets: The Human Shield
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 18 May 2010
I first heard the term "human shield" during the Iraq war in the 1990's, when the Iraqis were placing people near strategic military targets to deter the sites from being bombed. While the term entered my vocabulary 20 years ago, I'll bet the pedestrians of Cairo have had a word for it as long as they have had their serious traffic problems. Cairo traffic is so completely choked with cars and pedestrians that the safest way to cross a busy street is to keep the local Cairenes between you and the traffic.
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Top 5 Safety Tips Americans and other Westerners need to know NOW before traveling to a third world country.
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 13 May 2010
When traveling / backpacking, it is important to note that not all third world countries have the same dangers to watch out for, but here are some that apply to most. 5) PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL BOUNDARIES Severe poverty can bring out real desperation in people, which means that in the poorer countries, people will push [...]
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Cairo: On the lookout for a BIG hump!
Blog: photito's blog - 25 April 2010
Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo is magic and mayhem in a seemingly uncontrolled chaos. As soon as I stepped off my taxi I knew that the smell of hay and unwashed animals added to the unmistakable sound of regurgitating camels and mad bidding in Arabic would come together as One of those Places. You know, [...]
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Cairo – Last Bits of Advice
Blog: An American in London - 22 April 2010
I have a dilemma. As dilemmas go, it’s not huge, but it’s my excuse for being a slacker on the blog front these last two weeks. I want to tell you about my week in Egypt over Easter, but every time I think about Egypt, I feel kind of sick. Maybe I’m allergic to Egypt [...]
