Alexandria

February 22nd 2007
Paul’s managed to score us a ride for the three-hour drive to Alexandria. He’d met some young guys snorkeling the Blue Hole in Dahab, and back in Cairo, after a luckless morning of staticky phone calls and mixed messages and one perilously stupid cab ride across town, we meet Ezzeldin amid the manic traffic of early-afternoon in Midan Ramses. He’s grinning broadly as he leads us across the ... read more

Africa » Egypt

The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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Christopher Vourlias

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Chris is an avid traveler and hypercaffeinated writer, criss-crossing the globe and occasionally remembering to call home. Follow me at postcardjunky.wordpress.com. UPDATE, 22 January 2010: For those of you - both of you? - who have been following this blog off and on (mostly off) for the past few years, it's time to officially put it on a permanent hiatus. As much as I love these nutty little essays about my time on the road, they're just a bit too time-consuming to keep up with, given the demands of my freelance work. So for now, my dear TravelBlog, it's time to say adieu, though ... full info

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