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Top 5 Things To Do In Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt
Blog: As We Travel - 6 October 2010
A Guest Post By Oscar: Sharm el Sheikh is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt. It is located on the coastal strip along the beautiful shores of the Red Sea, approximately a one hour flight from Cairo.
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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, [...]
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the Truth
Blog: Leave Me Here - 28 September 2010
You want the Truth? Well here it is.. The Middle East will start off fun – The chaos, the food, the heat, the ruins. Hummus will be the best you’ve ever eaten, Baklava will melt in your mouth, grand bazaars full of endless trinkets & hidden treasure, beautiful citadels turn golden in the afternoon sun, [...]
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How Not To Enjoy World Travel – Part 2
Blog: Vagobond.com - 24 September 2010
Don't read anything about the country of place you are going to. That way you won't understand the culture, the traditions, the history, the climate, or anything else. You will be able to have a completely one dimensional experience.
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LOS CONTRASTES DE EGIPTO: CONDUCCIÓN Y RAMADÁN por Xavi y Bet
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 22 September 2010
¿Alguna vez os habéis preguntado qué tal debe ser descubrir Egipto conduciendo tú mismo el coche y encima durante el Ramadán? Pues Elisabet y Xavier, lectores de Diario de a bordo, se lanzaron a la aventura y nos relatan sus experiencias:Egipto es un país de contrastes: paisajes desérticos, playas de aguas turquesas, el bullicio del Cairo, la tranquilidad de los oasis… Isabel nos adentró en él y gracias a sus publicaciones decidimos realizar un viaje parecido: por libre, pero alquilando un coche.
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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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Abu Simbel: A Mirage In The Desert
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 14 September 2010
Our 2:30 a.m. wake up call seemed to shake our hotel room, rousing the four of us from a deep sleep. We dressed and went downstairs to the hotel lobby to join other half-awake guests searching through their complimentary box breakfasts to find something edible. We were herded into a minivan and drove through the Aswan streets picking up more tourists until we had a full minibus. Our driver then took us to a spot south of Aswan where a couple dozen minivans and several large buses lined up ready to start the convoy to the Abu Simbel temples.
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Cairo, Egypt: How Do You Say Motherboard In Arabic?
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 9 September 2010
Our family travels with two computers so that we can pay bills, keep this blog going, check email, skype back home and most importantly, allow the kids to keep up with their studies. We’d been lucky for most of our travels, although our second, older computer died while we were in Mancora, Peru, succumbing to a deadly Trojan virus that brought it to its knees. (From what I saw in that northern Peruvian party town, our Trojan was probably not the only virus being passed around). Once back in the U.S. for Christmas, we replaced it with a new, smaller mini laptop and set off for Africa.
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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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Dahab, Egypt: Incense And Squirt Bottles
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 21 August 2010
We arrived in Dahab after a long 18 hour overnight bus ride from Luxor and the difference between this seaside scuba haven and the rest of Egypt was immediately apparent. The sea breeze was a welcome respite from the dry desert heat, the men wore T-shirts, shorts and sandals instead of dark-colored robes and skull caps and for the first time we met a woman who was actually in charge of something. Dahab sits on the Gulf of Aqaba directly across from Saudi Arabia and is a laid back corner of Egypt, a virtual paradise…except for the flies and the cats.
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Sinai, Egypt: Only Four Camels For Our Daughter?
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 14 August 2010
After Abdul asked my daughter’s age, he was quiet for a minute. The sun was going down over the rough craggy hills of the Sinai, washing them in a dark reddish hue. Abdul continued, “Your daughter is very pretty. I can pay four camels.” My first response was Marriage? She’s only 12 years old! but I collected my composure and asked, “Why only four?” “Four is a good price,” he said, “I am poor Bedouin man.” I wasn’t sure if Abdul was serious or just playing with me, nevertheless, I countered with ten camels, not having any idea if his initial “bride price” was fair or not.
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Budget Airlines in Turkey and Morocco – Air Arabia
Blog: Vagobond.com - 10 August 2010
We are back from Turkey now and in Morocco again. It is just a few days until Ramadan begins and we are going to celebrate most of it up in Sefrou with Hanane’s family. It’s a mixture of feelings to be back- part sadness and part joy, for Hanane anyway. For me, I always suffer [...]
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The Cairo Camel Market
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 5 August 2010
Quite often the journey is as interesting as the destination and getting to the Birqash camel market on the outskirts of Cairo was no exception. The guidebook made it sound easy to get to (by taxi 30-40 minutes north of Cairo) and Mahmoud, one of the men who alternate at the front desk at the African House Hostel, offered to write down the name in Arabic for us as well as his cell number in case we got lost. He scribbled this down on the back of a business card for the hostel and we were set.
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Daily Travel Photo – Komombo, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 4 August 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. Related posts:Daily Travel Photo – Komombo, Egypt Daily Travel Photo – Temple of Philae, Aswan, Egypt Daily Travel Photo – Edfu, Egypt
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EGYPT 5 - Sinai & Red Sea
Blog: Where on earth is Skye? - 3 August 2010
Let me introduce to my new travelling buddies: From left to right: Brendan – leader (Australian guy married to an Egyptian girl, living in Cairo) Eli – Brisbane, Australia me! Dustin – Washington DC, USA Allan and Karyn – Christchurch, New Zealand Ben – living in Istanbul but from Arkansas, USA Dan – Ottawa, Canada Happy looking bunch, huh! Unusual that there were only two women and six men in our group – usually it’s the other way around. But who am I to complain?! The dat ...
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EGYPT 4 - Alexandria & Cairo
Blog: Where on earth is Skye? - 3 August 2010
Despite being sad to leave Siwa, my heart gave a little jump of excitement at the thought of seeing the sea again. We left the oasis early in the morning of 11 June and drove through flat, rocky, boring desert (the only thing alleviating the nothingness was the odd camel herd) before hitting the coast. I had driven this coast in the opposite direction the year before when I travelled from Cairo to Casablanca and was excited to have the ...
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EGYPT 3 - Western Desert & Siwa
Blog: Where on earth is Skye? - 2 August 2010
6 JUNE - Dakhla Oasis It was to be a long drive through the desert from Luxor to Dahkla. Soon after leaving the fertile Nile plains behind us we entered a desert region which is named after foreign places, ie. Algeria and Baghdad. I guess, in the case of Bagdad, it beats going to the actual place! Before setting off for the day we had to register with the Tourist Police. There were police checkpoints every 50 – 100kms and ...
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EGYPT 2 - Luxor
Blog: Where on earth is Skye? - 31 July 2010
We had been dive bombed by mosquitoes the entire night – I stopped counting at 30 bites! They were so tenacious that they bit us through our sleeping sheets and then, after we’d tried to double protect ourselves with the flea ridden old blankets provided by the boat, they bit us through those too! I made a tent under my sleep sheet to cover my face and spent much of the night flicking the sleep sheet up but ...
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EGYPT 1 - Aswan & The Nile
Blog: Where on earth is Skye? - 31 July 2010
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Buying Air Tickets – How to find the best flights and cheapest fares
Blog: My Little Nomads - 29 July 2010
Tips, advice and great web sites for finding the best airlines and cheapest prices for your next vacation.READ MORE AT: Buying Air Tickets – How to find the best flights and cheapest fares Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families
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Travelling in Turkey – More Greek and Roman Ruins than Italy and Greece!
Blog: Vagobond.com - 29 July 2010
Again, not a lot of time to write, but we are having a wonderful time in Turkey. From cruising the Bosporus to marveling at the Iskander Kebap in Bursa, this trip has been filed with adventures stretching across the Black Sea, the Marmara Sea, and soon the Aegean Sea, and of course a bit of [...]
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Travel With Kids: Getting Started
Blog: My Little Nomads - 28 July 2010
The First Steps To Planning A Family VacationREAD MORE AT: Travel With Kids: Getting Started Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: A Cancun Family Vacation — Things To Do with Kids
