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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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Boats and Fort Qataby in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 30 January 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
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High Tea at the Old Cataract in Aswan
Blog: Sophie's World - 29 January 2012
From the Nile, the Old Cataract Hotel looks grand, perched on the granite bluff above. If you’ve seen Death on the Nile, it will also look familiar. My oldest daughter enjoys sipping tea in old world hotels, preferably while wearing a big hat, looking mysterious. Uniformed guards at the gate inform us we have to [...]High Tea at the Old Cataract in Aswan is a post from Sophie's World
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Escape of the Week: The pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Blog: The Adventures of D - 18 January 2012
Escape of the Week: The pyramids of Giza, EgyptEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Endri of Trip and Travel Blog. If you have an Escape of the Week you would like to contribute, please send [...]d travels 'round
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Roman Theater in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 18 January 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
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Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 17 January 2012
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK, caught up with scores of...
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Adventures in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 January 2012
ne of the absolute coolest things to do in Egypt is visit an oasis, and one of the most easily accessible is the Siwa Oasis. To get there you either have to drive yourself, or take an eight hour bus ride from Alexandria. The buses departs at night and when you wake up, you are [...]--------- 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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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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Places to see in 2012 - Extended Edition
Blog: Hello, Pineapple? - 1 January 2012
In the January 2012 issue of Time Out Singapore I shared the best places to visit in 2012: Xinjiezhen, China; Guimarães, Portugal; London, England; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada and The Mayan Riviera, Belize.
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A Trip Down Memory Lane of New Year’s Past
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 December 2011
Wow, can you believe it's nearly 2012? This has been a short Christmas season, it seems shorter than usual with Christmas and New Years falling on a Sunday. It seems like the holidays just got started and they are already coming to and end
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Solo Travel Destination: Dahab, Egypt
Blog: Solo Traveler - 27 December 2011
Dahab is highly recommended by a Solo Travel Society member as a safe, beautiful, relaxing beach town on the Red Sea, popular with divers.
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A Street Car named….Alexandria
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 23 December 2011
Our Guide Maha says that the pyramids and the tombs aren't the only ancient monuments in Egypt, The Trolleys of Alexandria are one of the country's historical as well. Dating back to 1860, the trolley system of Alexandria is the only working streetcar in Egypt and the oldest working line in all of Africa.
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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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Inside the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 19 December 2011
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos.
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It All Began in Egypt: Cycling a Continent
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 18 December 2011
As we speak, we are in Egypt speaking at a travel conference. Nearly 4 years ago to the day, we are back in the country that changed our lives. It was in 2008 that our entire adventure began and ThePlanetD was born when we flew into Egypt for the start of the Tour d’Afrique. We [...]
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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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Drawings of John Henning Speke – Perfect gift for Explorer
Blog: Vagobond.com - 11 December 2011
pencil drawings of what seem connected to John Hanning Speke’s adventures during his discovery of the source of the Nile.
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19 – Travelling in Egypt – Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh and Siwa – Podcast
Blog: Heather on her travels - 7 December 2011
In Travel Podcast Episode 19 I visit Egypt where I spent a week travelling with a friend who lives in Alexandria. I took a walking tour of the city where many of the houses are crumbling away and where we bumped into a wedding procession hooting horns and letting off fireworks. We drove west to [...]
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Politics, Morality and the Responsibility of Travel
Blog: Landlopers - 28 November 2011
I’ve written about this topic before, so I’m not going to rehash an old argument for new circumstances. Instead of just waxing philosophically about traveling to this country or that country, I want to propose something for anyone traveling, well, anywhere. The other day I...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Egypt #1: Change
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 14 November 2011
By the time you read this, I will have returned from my second of two trips to Egypt. I haven’t been there since 2007. I was of course fascinated to see how (or if) things had changed since the revolution. The changes weren’t immediately obvious. Same crowds, same pollution, same bad traffic. Worse, in fact, [...]
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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 [...]
