Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [909]
after visiting st. katherine's monastery, we drove 2.5 hours to nuweiba on the coast of the gulf of aqaba, which is a finger of the red sea between egypt and saudi arabia. decending down into nuweiba we had our first glimpses of the mountains of saudi ... Read more >
Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [639]
we left cairo on the 2nd for the sinai peninsula, but i thought it was worth mentioning our dinner in cairo on the 1st (happy birthday dad!). we decided we had to try pigeon, an egyptian favorite, before we left cairo so we headed to the islamic quarter ... Read more >
Monday, 27 Oct 2008 | Views [640] | Comments [4]
we caught our train to aswan last night at about 9:30. mon and i shared a cabin which was actually pretty nice- our own sink and two beds, one of which turned into seats for when we werent sleeping. after about 5 mins on the train the attendant came ... Read more >
Monday, 27 Oct 2008 | Views [353] | Comments [2]
yesterday was our first full day with our tour group. it has been hard to get used to in cairo where we spent so much time on our own exploring and what not, but it is definitely getting better. we got up first thing yesterday and headed out to the ... Read more >
Friday, 24 Oct 2008 | Views [622] | Comments [4]
Wow there is so much to say! Hopefully I get all the main points and you can get an idea of our experience. Yesterday morning a driver arrived bright and early at our hostel to drive us out to Oases to meet our jeep to the white desert. it took an ... Read more >
Thursday, 23 Oct 2008 | Views [503] | Comments [2]
we got up this morning and had breakfast out on our balcony overlooking talaat harb st and lots of traffic. we also heard the morning call to prayer which was amazing. after breakfast we headed for the islamic quarter of cairo. its about a 30 min ... Read more >
