Egypt Travel Blogs

Magnificent, no other way to describe Karnak Temple, arriving there before sunrise, standing in the pre dawn gloom, then just as the sun starts to rise, seeing the pillars of the great Hypostle hall being revealed as the sun rose through them was a ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by jimandtarja
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We were back on board for lunchtime, I should mention that, the food is really good, of a high standard, just love these Egyptian vegestables, the staff in the dining room are very friendly,it was a good idea of ours to give them a small gift, we only ...

A travel blog entry from River nile, Edfu and Kom Ombo by jimandtarja
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This entry composed of photos taken during our holiday

A travel blog entry from Luxor by jimandtarja
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... Lake Nasser. I'm so glad that they managed to rescue this temple, this was down as one of the two main highlights of the holiday. If there are only two places you have a chance to visit in Egypt, then your choice should be the Pyramids and Abu Simbel.

A travel blog entry from Abu Simbel by jimandtarja
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... he saw an army boot with an ankle inside when he toured Sinai. It was closer to the Suez Canal, where Israel and Egypt had battled recently. I looked and looked...but no such luck. What I did see were Nawamis. They're mysterious, stone structures found ...

A travel blog entry from Mt Sinai by eric
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We caught the bus from Cairo to Sham El Sheikh, which passed over the Suez Canal before heading south and then into the foothills of the Sinai Mountains before reaching our destination. Sham was a lot bigger than I had expected and had sort of foreseen to ...

A travel blog entry from Sham el Sheikh by jag
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... brilliantly under the dark royal blue of the night sky. I took another couple of rolls of films here. Luxor had been another stunning place with soooooo much to see and do here. Its been pretty hard to pick highlights in Egypt as they are so frequent

A travel blog entry from Luxor by jag
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After spending plenty of time in Cairo I headed down on an overnight train to Aswan, Egypt's most southern city. I thought the train would be quite dodgey but turned out to be really nice. I was sharing the cabin with a guy room Korea. The train ride was ...

A travel blog entry from Aswan by jag
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... saw tombs which looked like bee hives spread over the desert mountains.  It is one of the largest cemetaries in Egypt.  Unbelievable to see. The bus was running low on fuel.  They had tried 11 service stations in Minya ...

A travel blog entry from Sohag by shazlex
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... beautiful.  They have really made an effort.  There are lots of colorful tile mosaiics and water fountains. As we got further into the town, there are alot of older buildings but it still looks so much cleaner than other places in Egypt. 

A travel blog entry from El Giza by shazlex
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... crops growing.  The main things we saw were Date Palms and Mint.  Mint Tea is a big thing in Egypt and with nearly the entire population (70million) drinking it, they need alot of it! The step pyramid is 5122 years old.& ...

A travel blog entry from Saqqara by shazlex
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We were only overnight at Minya and under heavy police guard. The population of Minya is approx 1.8 Million.  Minya is on the West bank, which is normally for the tombs. Most of the main cities are normally on the East Bank. Driving into the ...

A travel blog entry from El Minya by shazlex
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Ahmed had offered to take us to the West Bank with Rambo, he also offered the option of taking a taxi, driven by one of his friends, thinking of the long hot day ahead of us, we opted for the taxi. The taxi driver, also Ahmed, very good and ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by jimandtarja
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Riding donkeys, colourful tombs, temples, dust, sun, shopping at the market and then the train to Alexandria to finish the day. I am so tired.  Another early morning.  We woke at 5am to leave for the Valley of the Kings at 5.45am.  ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by shazlex
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... of the cartouches contain names like normal and many of the hieroglyphics speak very badly about the Romans who occupied Egypt at this time but could not understand hieroglyphics.  You can see that the Egyptian sense of humour has been ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by shazlex
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... on lunch I thought I'd head into the museum gift shop and maybe purchase a little souvenir. "I can see that you've been in Egypt a long time and don't trust the shop owners anymore" the man said. I told him he'd gotten that right for certain but that if ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by christinasworld
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... very often in this area.  They were staring at my blonde hair and at Mum, Lily and I smoking.  Females in Egypt rarely smoke. The women here are covered from top to bottom with many having only the eyes visible. The kids were shy ...

A travel blog entry from Shakshouk by shazlex
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On arrival back at the hotel, it was straight into breakfast, later on we were going for a little stroll downtown, the reason being, Ahmed had invited us to his house for lunch, we wanted to find a bakery, so we could buy some pastries, we didn't want to ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by jimandtarja
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Wow, there are so many pyramids in this area.  We may have only visited three but in the distance it was easy to see at least 6, although some of them have collapsed due to earthquakes. Firstly we went to the Red Pyramid.  It is ...

A travel blog entry from Dashur by shazlex
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... in its true magnificence. Remembering my previous visit, it was the exact same, the unremitting sales hassle at tourist sites in Egypt (followed closely by India) continues to be about the worst I have ever experienced. Not to say that it ruins the entire ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by globedecker
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... rubbish in the river), many boats also seem to just dump their rubbish overboard.  The government should have a clean up Egypt day.  However, they wouldn't get any volunteers unless they paid.   There was also a police boat go past ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by shazlex
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... I said, "Yes, sir, very good." He nodded excitedly and gave a fat thumbs up, "Good! Good! You welcome, you welcome to Egypt!" I smiled wide and believed him, he really meant it. We sat in silence and watched the street and sidewalk traffic as the wafts of ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by christinasworld
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... personable atmosphere, tasty cheap food, absence of tipping, and ability to constantly exceed my expectations. We Said: On Egypt: Our closing comments, observations, and a few questions. Egypt can be costly or cheap depending upon how you ...

A travel blog entry from Sharm-el-Sheik by globedecker
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... , "..such a lovely place, such a lovely face [sic]." * In Jordan when someone says "Welcome!" they mean, "Welcome!" * In Egypt when someone says "Welcome!" they mean, "Hey dumbass give me your money!" * In Jordan Americans are singled out and ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by christinasworld
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Uneventful plane ride to Cairo this afternoon.  Said final goodbyes to a Turkish guy that I had been spending time with each time I was in Istanbul.  Hard to bridge those vast cultural divides and expectations... Huge haze over Cairo as we ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by tracystravels
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Left Mt. Sinai early am to travel via van to Nuwieba on the Red Sea.  Our drive took us through multiple security checkpoints along the road.  Soldiers with guns, diversions placed in the road so that you had to move slowly around to get through ...

A travel blog entry from Nuwieba by tracystravels
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Day 4 - Left Dahab early only to be held up at the Tourist Police station because our drivers didn't have the right paperwork. After a hour of stuffing around we finally left for the dessert. We drove in two Landcruisers through sandy tracks that led us ...

A travel blog entry from Hurghada by peteandmandy
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Reluctantly got off the fellucca...wondering why there cant be a 15 day intrepid fellucca tour??  Anyway...Wandered through the Karnak Temple in the early pm then a bit of poolside relaxing then a walk with the group past the illuminated ...

A travel blog entry from Luxor by tracystravels
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... history (compliments of my new friend, Rohini's, blog except for the bit Ý added ýn italýcs): Started with Ancient Egypt, then the Persians invaded, then Alexander the Greek invaded and kicked out the Persians.The famous movie Cleopatara which portrays the ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by tracystravels
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... the family home and they build another level for them. The buildings are going to get pretty high as the population of Egypt is increasing by approx 1.7 Million people each year (70 million in total at present)! Well we finally left the noisy, busy, ...

A travel blog entry from Cairo by shazlex
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