El Alamein, Egypt

 El Alamein, Egypt

As soon as we got off the 3 hour bus from Cairo in Alexandria’s bus station this afternoon we set about chartering a taxi to take us the 106 kilometres west along the northern Egyptian coast into the desert of El Alamein. Our guidebook says the El Alamein War...
Cairo, Egypt

Cairo, Egypt

A pictorial look at Cairo, Egypt, the greatest city in the Islamic world and the capital of the world’s most populous Arab country.

Giza, Egypt

Giza, Egypt

Today we paid a visit to the Cairo suburb of Giza to see those ultimate monuments of antiquity, and arguably the most famous monuments in the world, the Great Pyramids of the Giza Plateau. All things dread time, but time dreads the Pyramids – Anonymous proverb...
Luxor, Egypt

Luxor, Egypt

It’s hard to know what to say about Luxor in Upper (southern) Egypt’s Nile Valley. It’s the latest location on this my first trip to Egypt that seems happy to live the complacent life, happy to grab, grab, grab all it can, happy to live for today on...
Cairo, Egypt || An Introduction

Cairo, Egypt || An Introduction

I’m finally getting use out of the Lonely Planet Middle East guidebook I bought way back when. I’ve flipped it open countless times since but when I flipped it open a few days ago in my hotel room here in Cairo it actually meant something. That was shortly...

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