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DENIAL: Not Just a River in Africa
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 28 June 2010
6/18/10: Nile River, Egypt [Editor's note: I wanted to actually make the title relate to the post, but I couldn't figure out a way to work it in. “Why didn't you just change the title then?” you ask. Very astute question, dear reader. The answer is: I didn't want to.] Yesterday morning, we attempted to [...]
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Full Circle, Literally?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 27 June 2010
6/17/10: Luxor, Egypt We’ve come full circle, literally. Our trip started in Africa and now we’re back. We’ve circled the globe (take that, for those of you who still believe the Earth is flat), and now we’re back where we started. Sure, we’re a bit further north, but a few days ago we finally said [...]
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Not Just a Hotel in Vegas
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 26 June 2010
6/16/10: Luxor, Egypt I’ll admit that before we came to Egypt that when I heard the word “Luxor,” I, like Google, first thought of the glitzy hotel in Vegas. Having been to Las Vegas before and now having been to the real Luxor in Egypt, I can say with confidence that they are quite similar. [...]
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100,000 slaves – 80 years.
Blog: Leave Me Here - 25 June 2010
Some things you can look at photos of, and then some things you need to see in real life. Every now and then, traveling gets epic. It could be something small like finding the best vegan cheesecake ever, or it could be something big like hanging out at the PYRAMIDS !!! I’ve sat on these [...]
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Our Last, I Mean First, Temple at Night
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 25 June 2010
6/15/10: Luxor, Egypt I believe it was the great Confucius who once said, “Sometimes you just gotta see temples at night.” So we did. In order to avoid the oppressive heat of the midday Egyptian sun, we didn’t emerge from our air conditioned room until dinnertime today. (Have you noticed the heat theme of all [...]
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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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Friday Flashback: Aswan, Abu Simbel & Feluccas
Blog: GoBackpacking - 18 June 2010
Even though I chose to take a barge-like cruise ship up the Nile River, I still had plenty of time to enjoy felucca rides around Aswan. As with everything in Egypt, the cost had to be negotiated, and it’s best to bring your sense of humor. Aswan, the Dams, and the Temple of Isis at [...]--------- 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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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…
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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: Nile Cruise & Temple Tourism
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 June 2010
Once I arrived in Luxor and joined the organized tour, I was insulated from most of the shenanigans and tourist shams (though one might argue I paid into the biggest of them all — a prepackaged Nile cruise). I ended up having a great time on the cruise. My room was very nice, there was [...]--------- 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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Honey Service Cyprus-Turkey
Blog: Honey Service Year - 6 June 2010
Honey Service Cyprus-TurkeyI.Our trip to Cyprus has been a whirlwind. We have had highs and lows, mostly stemming from a lot of carrying our luggage further than we wanted to or needed to. That said, Cyprus has been a real honeymooner sopt for us. We were whisked out of the airport to downtown Larnaca in a late model Mercdes Sedan Limo-Taxi, our first night was spent in a untra modern very sleek
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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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Who stands up in the basement cell?
Blog: Honey Service Year - 3 June 2010
Three women kneel on dusty ground, speaking in hushed tones through a small basement grate. Blue box trucks stack behind them with three little white hats peering off of bench seats out back; smoking, jostling.Two of the women are older. Dressed in black covering, the eldest has one hand clenched, supporting her heavy weight as she kneels and bends; her other had pressed against the chain grate.
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A Day at the Beach
Blog: Honey Service Year - 1 June 2010
On our last day in Alexandria, we went to the beach. I was feeling rather risqué in my mid-calf length skirt and high-necked t-shirt, with a shawl draped loosely around my hair and shoulders. This is a pretty standard outfit of mine, and happens to be the second favorite out of my three. Though a bit wild for wandering the streets of Cairo, this naughty little number caused even more of a scene
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Daily Travel Photo – Aswan, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 31 May 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos. [...]
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McDonalds and the RTW Traveler
Blog: Ottsworld - 27 May 2010
It has to be said…and this may be controversial… Eating at McDonalds in a foreign country does NOT make you a despicable traveler. In all honestly – up until I took my career break and traveled around the world, I would have scoffed at that statement. I thought Americans who ate at McDonalds while traveling abroad [...]
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An all inclusive adventure: Hurghada and Cairo, Egypt
Blog: The Amazing Dawdle - 26 May 2010
Hurghada
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The Souk is a Kindred Spirit
Blog: Honey Service Year - 26 May 2010
written by Nathan If China is the world’s largest importer of chicken feet, then Egypt must be the largest importer of beef liver. On the street, three things are ingested daily on every corner; tea (at all hours with sheesha), fuul at lunch (the original refried beans), and evenings are for liver. Use the word ‘sandwich’ at nearly any dining establishment serving food past 5PM and likely this
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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 [...]
