Blogs from Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa - page 6

As it use to be on turnarounds, I could see only airport...maybe one day I'll have opportunity to see more :) / Niestety tak to już jest z lotami turnaround, że mogłam zobaczyć tylko lotnisko...może juz niedługo będę miała okazję zobaczyć więcej :)... read more

Still trying to figure out a route and what to do or what to skip in this country…why am I having trouble you ask? Mainly because I was not supposed to plan this part of the trip. I was supposed to be an accompanying passenger with a friend who didn’t make it over. So I didn’t look up any information about anything in Egypt expecting him to keep his word and bring the plan (including my own up to date guide book I lent him). Soooooooo off to the pyramids of Giza today to see what kind of shit can go wrong…Well….it was supposed to be a simple 1 Egyptian Pound (1/8th of a dollar) to ride the subway allllll the way to Giza (a suburb of Cairo) and then a simple ticket purchase to wander ... read more

So my last night in Addis I got eaten alive by some bastard bed bugs….i was using my sleeping bag liner which has anti bug stuff in it but I didn’t cover my face so they bit me on my upper lip and below my lower one! Swelled up something fierce…and it itched a lot…goddamnit…oh well…looking like the elephant man never hurt anyone I suppose lol…so I arrived in Cairo around 01:30 and immediately felt the annoying touting Egypt is famous for…blurg…anyways…pushed past that to find my taxi and went to the heart of the city to meet a guy who took me through three alleys and up five flights of stairs to find my dorm bed…no idea where I am or what im doing…but…to add insult to injury some mozzies decided to have a go ... read more

After a good night’s sleep, I met the Binkleys downstairs for breakfast. The buffet was elaborate with multicultural influences, more fruit and pastries than imaginable as well as a honeycomb station. I took some of the smoked salmon to the omelet cook and had him do scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and red onion. He surprised me when he lined a ring mold with the salmon, filled it with the egg and folded the salmon around the eggs for an elegant presentation. After breakfast Dave, Merry Jo and I lingered over coffee for a long time enjoying each others company. At 8 we met our guide and driver for the day of touring. Our guide was a very pleasant, knowledgeable woman named Hanon. It was funny that she wasn’t sure of the dynamic of our group. ... read more

"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one's lifetime." -Mark Twain So here we go for another life trip. This trip, as I have said about a few others, is one in which I have been dreaming of and planning in my mind for years and years. The Middle East is a region where there is never really a "good time" to visit as it is a place that is wrought with perpetual political and social turmoil to a greater or lesser extent. I had purchased our plane tickets in May arriving in Egypt and 3 weeks later departing Turkey, with plans to visit Greece and Jordan in between. At the time of purchase the region was somewhat stable, but since ... read more