OK so we are now in Duhab Egypt on the Red Sea coast of the Sinai desert. We got a nice hotel and this place is really a nice place to kick back but we only have two days. Yesterday on the ferry our brand new camera quit so hopefully we can figure that out. More later. [View Full Entry]

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Here are some pics of our recent adventures: a moroccan beach town called Essaouira, a nite and two days in the Sahara desert (waay tooo hot) and the pyramids in Giza, among other things....hope everyone is well!! love from duey and kali [View Full Entry]

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I was planning on using my first day in Cairo to catch up to my lack of sleep from a full night of flying with zero leg room (thanks Air Ethiopia), meeting people at the hostel to do some sightseeing with, and generally bumming around adjusting to the heat and the vastly different Egyptian atmosphere. But as you could tell from the last post, the plan ended up changing. Air Ethiopia is notorious for delays and inconveniences but despite a mechanical problem and an hour delay in Sudan, I still got to Cairo on time. I landed, got my visa, cleared [View Full Entry]

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Sorry this took forever. All of my pics from before the Serengeti (the first 5 weeks or so) are hopefully safely saved on my tourmate Nicole's computer in LA. So I can only give you from the Serengeti onwards. [View Full Entry]

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Apparently it’s a 3 hour hike to get to the top from St. Catherine monastery. I think i may have overestimate my fitness, believing that i could jog up without too much difficulty. well…. It’s stairs all the way to the top! I started my stop watch with a hand on the wall of the monastery and took off with a strong stride and lots of confidence. The problem with my timing was that the 600 people who go up the night before to catch the sunrise were all coming down at this point. Being someone with a… decent amount of, [View Full Entry]

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Okay, okay... I know it's been far too long between blogs. There's no excuse really, I've just been too busy having a fab time over here in the UK. I had even contemplated not doing another blog, but then I figured that wouldn't really be fair to those non-facebookers amongst you. And, after all, I did promise I'd keep you all posted on what I'd been up to. Anyway, back in April I spent a couple of weeks in Egypt. It was a bit of a last-minute decision as it had never been part of my plans to go to Egypt [View Full Entry]

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Well it's about time I write again and give you an update of our whereabouts and dealings. We recently flew from Cairo to Istanbul Turkey for I think the last leg of this trip, after spending almost 3 weeks in Egypt. We had not intended to go there so it's interesting that we ended up there. And I must say that the whole experience was rather a 'mýxed bag' for us in that there were some great highlights and also some real hassles. To most of you I would say, if you want to go to Egypt TAKE A TOUR! [View Full Entry]

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As a child reading about the great Egypt civilisation in particular learning about the pyramids and the incredible artefacts; this indeed was a dream destination for me. Visited Cairo only, met all my expectations - the rush and bustle of a major city and splendour and magnificence of the pyramids. I undertook a personal tour of the pyramids, visited the museum and a small cruise on the Nile. My advice: read on the history and civilisation before your visit; then everything is appreciated as every monument, every carving, every view has a story. Stay in a good hotel near the Nile [View Full Entry]

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Dear Family and Friends: As you may have noticed, a few portions of our last blog entry came through as gobblely gook. This was the fault of the computer we were using in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, and a sample of the many techological problems we have encountered! Thankfully, not much was missing, although the funniest part of the visit to our guide's home was lost...all photos are there. In the beginning of the original message, we recommended that, if short on time, you simply read about the bathrooms and the visit to our guide's home (further down in the [View Full Entry]

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SECRETS OF THE NILE - Trip with Grand Circle Travel May 31 to June 14,2008 This blog was written by my friend and co-traveller Joan who was the scribe for our Egypt adventure. There are a lot of pictures not here, but as soon as I learn how to do captions, they will be on Picasa online and I'll send links to anyone interested. They are not in order with the text as I don't know how to do this. Yet! We drove southward through Massachusetts and Connecticut, our hair flying in the wind and our anticipation running high. We were [View Full Entry]

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