Egypt Travel Blogs

A day off to myself. "Phew!" At last.  I chat to Sarah (Australia) and Pierre-Marc (Canada) some cool people staying at King Tut's too.  Sarah's still suffering from what I'll refer to in my time in Egypt as Cairo Shock.  Only a matter of an hour into the city and she'd had her bags …

After four days of hard work and tasty, yet tiring business dinners, it was time for something fun. Today was the last day my Dutch colleague Peter would be in Cairo, so we decided for tonight we should definitely do something special. Especially since we hadn’t really been outside of our Heliopo…

I'm back in Cairo....what a journey. The day long snorkel trip in Hurghada was fantastical!  We were aboard a beautiful yaught and some some amazing coral!  We were warned not to touch the coral while snorkelling but not told why.  A few people quickly found out why when they accide…

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)Arriving into Nuweiba port at 09.00, was more than 5 hours later than we had expected, but on the plus side it was daylight and there were taxis to take us to the town. I made a beeline for the nearest ATM and stood in bewild…

I was fascinated by Egypt long before I ever dreamt of travelling. When I was growing up I lived in the more affluent residential areas of my home town of Kampala.  Kampala is said to sit on seven hills (some refer to it as the city in the prophesies, I don't know about that), infact ther…

Dahab has somehow managed to escape mass tourism until now hence it is a fairly small place without the big hotels you will find elsewhere in Egypt.   I get ready for one of the main things I have been looking forward to do in Egypt - dive the Red Sea. I have heard many good stories…

Wake-up was at 4:30 for a 6:00 pickup.  We were on the bus with a group from Insight.  Because we had added the extra days, Uniworld was not responsible for our airport transfer.  We had the option of arranging transfer with the concierge or of booking something with Spring Tours, th…

When i and my friend - Ana - had decided to visit Egypt we didn't know that Ehab (Maher) would accompany us during our whole trip but i don't know what we would have done there without him...This trip wasn't just a dream coming true but also the beginning of an amazing and a hopefully everlasting friendship. Shukran Ehab for these unforgetable 9 days - you're an incredibly nice person! God bless Travbuddy!!!!! :-))))

Today we spent our time at the beach. just hanging around in the sun.in the afternoon i went back to the divingschool to get my equipment and hung it out in the bathroom to dry  After  we took a shower we went for diner to the Grillhouse. The food was great and tasted well. After we wer…

Day 8, Marsa Alam, Egypt After getting all of our stuff out of the room we waited in the lobby for the bus to pick us up and take us to the airport. On the way to the airport we passed a truck that was loaded with dromeday camels. Such a funny sight! It had been a great week and I was so happy to …

We first went to the Cairo  Museum and saw statues, royal mummies, and King Tut's gold laden sarcophagus and all the treasures found in his tomb that were not on tour. Ridiculously unbelievable! It pretty much occupied the half of the 2nd floor of the museum! Then off we were to the pyramids …

Egypt-a country of ancient world and mysterious Pyramids.

For New Year's Eve, Ammie and I decided to splurge and stay at the Mena House, a former Sultan's Palace turned elite hotel.  Being that we had Egyptian residency visas we got the "Egyptian rate" for the cheap-o room, which was INSANELY cheap at $50/night (normally it would have cost hundreds o…

So is this it??? My Egypt Lonelyplanet still looked new, had that characteristic new-book fragrance and my stickies were all in place of some of the attractions. So is this REALLY it? Is it ALL over? Personally, for me, there was a voice in my head going "Du-bai Du-bai Du-bai DU-BAI... DUUUUBAAAAI"…

I can imagine somewhere in Holland there's a woman proudly telling everyone how her husband bargained 150 dollars off of a beautiful stone cat...   Yesterday, on our way to Hatshepsut's temple, we visited an alabaster handicraft shop. The alabaster handicraft shop has a work corner where thr…