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Collection of 104 travel stories from Egypt. Written by your friends on the road.

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Picture from story Pharaoh's revenge

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...

 
Picture from story Drift away

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...

 
Picture from story Camels and stuff

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...

 
Picture from story Of pyramids

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...

 
Picture from story For the love of god where are the shawarmas

For the love of god where are the shawarmas
2007-11-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: frankieboy

Egypt After clearing customs without any problems I ran the usual gauntlet of cab drivers that were aggressive and pesky but not as bad as Morocco. I settled on a price and thought we would be read...

 
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Cruising the Nile
2005-12-01, Luxor, Egypt. By: bawana

Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbal, Alexandria, Nile Cruise

 
Traveler sdell

Time To Leave Dahab and Civilisation After 9 Days
2007-08-29, Dahab, Egypt. By: sdell

Well after 9 days of pure rest and relaxation our tan building session has come to an end. Country number one is complete Country number 2 here we come. Tomorrow at 10am we have another nine hour m...

 
Traveler sdell

Mt Sinai - If I found it hard think what poor old Moses had to carry down it!!!
2007-08-28, Dahab, Egypt. By: sdell

Well after chillin by the beach for several days on end we thought we better get active and do something. Last night we left the hotel at 23:00 and drove for 2 hours to prepare to climb Mount Sinai. W...

 
Traveler sdell

Diving, Diving, Snorkelling and more diving thrown in for good measure!
2007-08-25, Dahab, Egypt. By: sdell

Within an hour of being in Dahab, just as our eyes were beginning to close, I enquired about the PADI diving course. Within another 10 mins I was on the diving course studying my backside off! Ove...

 
Traveler sdell

Finally We Get to Dahab!
2007-08-21, Dahab, Egypt. By: sdell

What we forgot to mention on the last entry was that at 11pm on Hannah's birthday we had to catch that bloody train again. We got to Cairo after 12 hours then spent the day in Cairo again. That night ...

 
Traveler sdell

Hannah's Birthday
2007-08-19, Luxor, Egypt. By: sdell

Hannah's Birthday today, cards were opened first thing then had a easy day. I gave Hannah the birthday everyone wants by going to the pub to watch Man Utd Vs Man City. Turned out to be a waste of time...

 
Traveler sdell

Day 11 - There must be only one temple left to see - Shirley Temple!
2007-08-17, Luxor, Egypt. By: sdell

Early start today, got up about 6.45am had a quick breakfast and was on the road by 7.15 to The Valley of the Kings where there are loads of tombs of lots of Pharoahs all in one huge canyon. The first...

 
Traveler sdell

Day 10 - Luxor
2007-08-16, Luxor, Egypt. By: sdell

Had another chill out day, spent the morning hanging by the pool with the rest of the group went to Karnak Temple which was the biggest temple so far - it had a lake inside and it was still unfinished...

 
Traveler sdell

The Felucca Ride
2007-08-15, Aswan, Egypt. By: sdell

Been a chilled out few days!!! Caught our armed convoy at 3am which was an experience. All the cars met up and chated til about 4am then when the guards decided they wanted to leave, all the driver...

 
Traveler sdell

Day 6 - The Nubiani Hotel.
2007-08-13, Aswan, Egypt. By: sdell

Finally arrived after a 13 hour train ride - feeling rough all the way slept for most of it, and now our ass knows a new scale of numbness! Got tour new hotel which was actually better than the las...

 
Traveler sdell

Day 5 - Let the Tour Commence!!!
2007-08-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell

Had an early start at 8am to go the the pyramids of Giza, but we'd been there already so Hannah, Brendan & I sat outside some posh hotel for 3 hours while the others went. It was a good idea to go ear...

 
Traveler sdell

Day of Rest
2007-08-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell

Finally met up with our tour guide, had a bit of a relaxed day today as we were waiting for another group to show up who were coming down to meet us from the Middle East. Ended up goin to the Moham...

 
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"The Inter-not Cafe"
2007-08-10, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell

Today we added another member of our group, Sandrafrom Switzerland. All 6 of us set off to the Islamic part of town to a bizzare at a place callled Khan-Al-Khalili. Looked like a real slum when we got...

 
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Day 2 - "Never Fear Camels Are Here"
2007-08-10, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell

We had originaly planned to get an early start toady, but it didn't really work out that way. We woke up about 10:30, then went for our egg thinking brendan must have already gone. Turns out he arose ...

 
Traveler sdell

"Beep Beep Beep"
2007-07-23, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell

Day 1 - The Sun Hotel Cairo Finally arrived at cairo airport around 1am local time. 25 degrees at night (about as hot as our summer days). Queued up for immigration only to find we needed a vis...

 
Traveler philstone

Emails from Egypt & Jordon
2001-05-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: philstone

"He who has not seen Cairo has not seen the world, it's dust is gold, it's Nile is a wonder...She is the mother of the world" - according to a tale in the 1001 Nights anyway. Personally I've seen ...

 
Traveler chaveiro

Hot and chilling
2007-07-17, Dahab, Egypt. By: chaveiro

And this is where we are now... Dahab! It was a whole challenge to get from Wadi Rum to here but we made it! We left Wadi Rum on a friday (free day for the muslims) so we had only one chance to g...

 
Picture from story Dahab

Dahab
2007-06-28, Dahab, Egypt. By: jake

I can almost imagine being here in the 70s when Dahab was a notorious hippie haven. Although it is a lot more touristy now, it is still an extremely chilled out place. The barren mountains transition ...

 
Traveler torchmaker

The final word
2007-06-10, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

It’s getting harder to take a keen interest in writing in this journal. I suppose a mainly because I can only explore so much of my experience in such a public space, and given my limited computer ti...

 
Traveler torchmaker

Horses, pigeons, choosing a wife...
2007-04-09, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

Hey, it's a long one here. Feel free to take a look at it in bits. I am nearing the end of another phase of my work here in Beni Suef. My work in the school will finish at the end of April. The ...

 
Traveler torchmaker

Just a boring note about the pictures
2007-03-11, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

The pictures I have put up during this new year of 2007 have all managed to come through dated 2006. I'm not sure if this matters to anybody, but just in case it does, don't get confused.

 
Traveler torchmaker

Stepping up in the world of fashion, but missing home
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

Okay, last story. I have been eyeing Egyptian fashion for some time, wondering if I should bother spending the money and effort to procure some cool clothes. I’m not talking about the unique sweater...

 
Traveler torchmaker

Belly dancing, Canadian style
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

Now for something completely different: the weekend of engagement parties. The memories come to mind vividly and makes me smile. Before this fateful weekend I had not been to any engagement parties ...

 
Traveler torchmaker

The Journey
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker

One especially memorable day from the month was the day of the ‘rehla’, the Arabic word for a trip or journey. In the context of the Coptic Orthodox church it often means piling onto a bus at a devas...

 

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