Hotel Marhaba Palace

In Aswan, we walked from the train station to Marhaba Palace Hotel.  Washed my shirt and socks in the sink, took a shower, and put on the tshirt the girls let me borrow.  Off to get lunch, we all walked into a restaurant with A/C but the prices ...

... woke up.  Breakfast on the train.  Arrived in Aswan and picked up by Thomas Cook representative.  Drove us to the Marhaba Hotel, 2 blocks from the train station.  The place isn't a palace, but it's way better than a budget ...

Marhaba a-meeleeon! (1 million hello's), I'm currently writing this from a very very Westernized coffee shop (complete with the overtly expensive, slightly pretentious latte drinks; but I'll take good wifi for only the purchase of a "very very vanilla ...

Gule Gule Turkiye, and Marhaba Egypt...a short (almost) 2 hour flight to Cairo, and it's game on, in what has to be one of the world's craziest, yet exciting cities. After brushing aside a dozen airport touts chasing the tourist dollar, we made our way to ...

Marhaba! You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find an internet cafe in this country. And when I finally do, its run by an Aussie. Warning this might be a long first entry, it's a week since I left and I've covered a lot of ground, so lets start at the ...

... So, we walked along the Corniche, and encountered a dockside fish market. We stopped into the Mövenpick hotel for an ice cream, and discovered the magazine Marhaba, which turned out to be a treasure trove of information about Doha and Qatar. We grabbed ...

Today was a day to catch up on sleep and be lazy.  The 3 hour bus ride to and from Abu Simbil, I slept.  Abu Simbil is my favorite site in all of Egypt so far.  I can't believe the site was moved to higher ground.  I was looking at ...