You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes! Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
We visited Egypt in early 2013, before the political strife hit the fan, and were very thankful we did. Whilst making our way to the Giza Plateau one morning our bus had to manoeuvre its way through several back streets and stop…
There are many boats to be found on the Nile at Aswan, southern Egypt. These particular motor boats are used as water taxis to ferry passengers from one side of the Nile…
Hopping a freighter isn’t what it used to be. Which is to say it takes a great deal more planning and bother than the adventure of my imagination.
Not surprisingly, since most of the population of Egypt is on the west side of the Suez Canal, there are few crossing points along it’s length. I spent hours at the windows of my cabin on a container ship taking pictures of the…
You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes! Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
We visited Egypt in early 2013, before the political strife hit the fan, and were very thankful we did. Whilst making our way to the Giza Plateau one morning our bus had to manoeuvre its way through several back streets and stop…
There are many boats to be found on the Nile at Aswan, southern Egypt. These particular motor boats are used as water taxis to ferry passengers from one side of the Nile…
Hopping a freighter isn’t what it used to be. Which is to say it takes a great deal more planning and bother than the adventure of my imagination.
Not surprisingly, since most of the population of Egypt is on the west side of the Suez Canal, there are few crossing points along it’s length. I spent hours at the windows of my cabin on a container ship taking pictures of the…
