 | Lounging by the Red Sea
2009-11-01, Dahab, Egypt. By: mala | | Dahab, a low-key beach town on the Red Sea, was to be our decompression from the Egypt we had expected. After ten days of abuse for the sake of world-class ruins, we would laze on the beach to collect... |
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 | Egyptians build em big
2009-10-29, Luxor, Egypt. By: mala | | It was to be my first sailing experience. Would it be my last?
A felucca is part sailboat, part death trap. Mohamed was part felucca captain, part insane. When the warm wind is blowing strong from... |
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 | South to Upper Egypt
2009-10-27, Aswan, Egypt. By: mala | | As with most transportation in Egypt, the train from Cairo to Aswan arrived well after the scheduled time. We were the lucky ones, suffering only a five hour delay. Other trains were delayed up to ten... |
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 | Then, now and Alexandria
2009-10-25, Alexandria, Egypt. By: mala | | Alexandria has historically been a crossroads. Europe and Africa. Christianity and Islam. Intellectuals, seedy tradesmen, saints and Cleopatra. Not to say they all sat down together to share a sheesha... |
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 | Peace In Purgatory
2009-10-23, Cairo, Egypt. By: mala | | When you expect hell and land in purgatory, you can't help but think "hey, this isn't that bad!" True, Cairo is filthy and loud. The air quality would kill a sufferer of anything beyond mild asthma. A... |
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 | Luxor to Dahab
2009-01-07, Dahab, Egypt. By: saffa2 | | At first glance, the surroundings of our final destination within Egypt seemed like something out of a Disney movie. With somewhat of an “Arabian” genre, Dahab comes complete with trinket shops, camel... |
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 | Cairo to Luxor
2009-01-04, Luxor, Egypt. By: saffa2 | | Once upon a time, Herodotus referred to Egypt as “The Gift of the Nile” and having brought the nation of Egypt into being one comes to realize its importance till this day.
Being the longest river in... |
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 | Cairo
2009-01-02, Cairo, Egypt. By: saffa2 | | Bursting with ancient history as well as present culture, Cairo eludes a magnetism which draws visitors from all over the globe. This mainstream city is sealed with so many charming entities, and pers... |
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 | Day 5: Back to Cairo
2008-10-26, Cairo, Egypt. By: manal | | We all got up pretty reasonable time and headed back to Cairo. That took most of the day… but we headed back to the Hyatt… I went and got a little pampering in one of their salons/spa, and ate dinner... |
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 | Day 2
2007-09-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | Awoke around 10am - had heard the 'call to prayer' earlier - but wasn't sure what time though. Had an Ok sleep, bit worried about the moggies, but all fine.
Had a look around before catching the fr... |
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| Day 1
2007-09-21, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | 1pm - Papa Flan not happy. He's not happy cos we're leaving our key in its hidy hole. He's also not happy cos we won't be at the airport 13hrs ahead of our flight.
Airport packed. We'd checked in y... |
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| Day 0
2007-09-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | Thursday 21st September 2007
Let's just say this day didn't exist......! |
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 | Ramadan, Starbucks and Roadtrips
2008-09-11, Cairo, Egypt. By: MariaT | | So the plan was always to come back to Cairo for a few days on my way back to Thailand and I've had such a wicked time! Right now Muslims are celebrating Ramadan where they fast from sunrise to sunset... |
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 | Trip statistics- Egypt
2008-06-20, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | TRIP STATS- EGYPT
Days traveling- 15
Trip highlights- Tam
~Luxor, Dahab
Trip highlights- Ian
~Dahab
Favorite activities- Tam
~Mt Sinai, Abu Simbel
Favorite activities- Ian
~ Mt ... |
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| Dahab part 5
2008-06-20, Dahab, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | We were in the bus for almost nine hours today. It was horrible...the bus had been traded for a smaller one, as two of our members had decided to stay a few more days. The bus was hot, cramped, and ... |
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 | Dahab part 4
2008-06-19, Dahab, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Today was yet another lazy day. Ian had promised Mohammed that he would teach him how to play chess, so we spent a few hours in his shop. As Ian taught Mohammed the rules and moves, I walked around ... |
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 | Dahab part 3
2008-06-18, Dahab, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Georgie had arranged for some in our group to go snorkeling the next day. The group wouldn't be meeting to leave until 10:30am, but Ian and I had decided the night before that we wanted a day with no... |
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 | Dahab part two
2008-06-16, Dahab, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | The next day was more of the same...relaxing! I spent a few hours next to the pool at the hotel two doors down, and Ian and I spent two hours having lunch overlooking the Red Sea again. I went to a ... |
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| Dahab, part one
2008-06-15, Dahab, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | We had a few more hours on the bus before getting to Dahab, our home for the next five days. I attempted to sleep on the bus but wasn't able to. Ian and I were very happy to arrive at our hotel. It... |
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 | From the Red Sea to the top of Mt Sinai
2008-06-14, Hurghada, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | That morning I went to the Red Sea to swim. The sea was across the street and through another hotel, quite a walk away from where we were staying. The water was an amazing shade of blue. I laid in ... |
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| Luxor Cadillacs and Ferarris
2008-06-13, Luxor, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Our group rose early for a tour of the Valley of the Kings. It was already hot that morning, and especially warm as there was no shade and the sun reflected off the light colored rocks. In the welco... |
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| LIARS!
2008-06-12, Luxor, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | I awoke to a brilliant sunrise this morning. The crew was already awake and had set our felucca adrift to ride the current to our final destination. Ibis birds called frantically to each other, addi... |
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| Intercultural bonding via soccer (AKA
2008-06-11, Aswan, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Falling asleep on the felucca was a nice sensation. Waking up on it was even nicer. We all awoke rather early as the sun rose before 6 am, and before I opened my eyes I could hear the Nile gently la... |
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| Abu Simbel
2008-06-10, Abu Simbel, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Last night was another night of no sleep. Our police convoy left at 3:30am sharp, meeting up with other busses and police vehicles waiting to escort us to Abu Simbel. All tourists must travel with p... |
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 | Aswan
2008-06-09, Aswan, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Our train was due to arrive in Aswan at 10:30am ("Egyptian time," Georgie had warned us. "Egypt runs when it wants. I once was due to arrive at 10:30 and pulled into the station at 2:30 that afterno... |
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| Rain in Cairo!
2008-06-08, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Here are a few interesting facts I learned about Egypt today-
- Egypt´s name is not really Egypt. The correct name is "Misr". "Egypt" was a name used by the Greeks.
- 94% of Egypt is desert.
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| Cairo!
2008-06-07, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | We landed in Cairo at 1:30am. I was terrified that our arranged airport transfer would not arrive...but there was Ahmed, our tour leader for Egypt, waving excitedly from the sidelines when we walked ... |
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 | Pharaoh's revenge
2008-04-21, Luxor, Egypt. By: juliac | | On the morning we left the felucca, we stopped off at Kom Ombo, a temple where there was a decent loo. And the comedy began again. In a lot of the toilets in Egypt there is a long external hose attach... |
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 | Drift away
2008-04-16, River Nile, Egypt. By: juliac | | We spent two lovely days and nights on a sailing on a felucca down the Nile. I had been a bit anxious about this, like were we going to drift downstream during the night, what if we hit a sandbank and... |
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 | Camels and stuff
2008-04-15, Aswan, Egypt. By: juliac | | We arrived in Aswan after 15 hours suffered in the company of a carriageful of the loudest and most boring Australians I have ever come across. I must be spoiled in the Australians I know, who are int... |
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 | Of pyramids
2008-04-14, Cairo, Egypt. By: juliac | | I'm so tired. We had to get up before 5 on Sunday for our flight and on our first night in Egypt last night it was so noisy that I couldn't sleep. Calls to prayer at 3 in the morning, never-ending hoo... |
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