 | 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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 | 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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| 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 ... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 ... |
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| "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... |
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 | 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 ... |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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 ... |
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 | 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... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| 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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