Archive | November, 2010

Sea Not the Way There

For Dahab, the four days in Hurghada was a great act to follow. Hurghada is on the Red Sea, and diving is done there, but the reefs have been poorly cared for, reportedly leaving poor diving. It is a large, strung-out coastal city that has been recently developed, and consists mainly of large, package-tour resorts, […]

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Gifts from the Red Sea

Thanksgiving on the Red Sea

November 25 Our day was quite unlike any other Thanksgiving Day. We woke early and after a breakfast of french toast, we put on our swim suits and walked a half hour down the beach to the Bedouin Divers. We realized this would be a different dive experience because instead of putting our gear on […]

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Ruins of the Ancients

(pretty cool title, huh?) So, after another enormous writing hiatus, we have an abundance of time to write and post in the small tourist town of Dahab. It’s a great place, with nice beaches and a comfortable atmosphere. But as usual, I am getting ahead of myself. I’ll start the day we left the cruise […]

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The Valley of the Kings

November 14, 15 On the 14th we went to go see the Valley of the Kings. We saw Seti II’s, Tuthmosis III’s, and Mintuhirkopshep’s tombs. The first tomb we saw was Tuthmosis’s. First you had to climb up a long staircase to get to the tomb. Then when you got to the tomb you had […]

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Cruising the Nile

I dubbed our cruise “The Mystery Cruise”. Everything was a mystery: the price, the schedule and the conversation. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left, we never quite knew what was happening. Most of our confusion arose from the fact that all the other passengers were Russian and on a package tour. […]

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Aswan, the Land of the Dam

On the night of the fourth, we boarded the night train to Aswan. We originally had planned on taking a day train, the night train differential costing much more than the price of a nice hotel, but we found out that foreign tourists were not allowed on the day train. The ostensible reason given is […]

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Chaos Theory

This is my second trip to Cairo, my first being 33 years ago as a college student. On that trip, it was my first time out of the country, not including short trips into Canada. For that matter, it was my first time on an airplane. It was a bit of a shock to someone […]

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The Times of London

Yes. We did leave London on the 31st of October, so this post is a bit stale. However, the last 10 days have been busy with seeing the sites. Late will have to suffice. The original plan was to arrive in London late in the evening, and then fly off the next afternoon for Cairo. […]

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Pyramids of Giza

A few days ago we took a cab across Cairo to Giza. The first thing that I noticed was the way the city came right up to the pyramids. Then I realized how huge they were. They were really amazing. We saw the sphinx first. I think the paws were waaay to long. The three […]

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Fez and London

We’ve been so busy traveling that we’ve neglected our blog for the past few weeks. Here are some of Emma’s journal entries to get you all a little up to date. October 24, 25, 26 Today we took a bus to Fez. When we got there we went into the Medina. There were a bunch […]

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