Five days, four nights floating along the Nile River from Luxor to Aswan on a dahabiya. It would have been paradise, except for those damn temples….. There is no doubt that the best way to…
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Thomas Cook brought his first group of tourists to Luxor in 1869, and so began mass tourism in Egypt. With the greatest concentration of ancient monuments in Egypt, Luxor has been described as ‘the world’s largest…
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Around 650kms south-west of Alexandria, just 50kms from the Libyan border, is the Siwa Oasis, a palm oasis surrounded by hundreds of kilometres of desert in every direction. Siwa is one of Egypt’s most isolated…
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It is probably fair to say that Alexandria is more famous for what once was, than what now is. Mention the name, and most people will think of the Lighthouse of Alexandria which was one…
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Giza The Pyramids of Giza – sitting quietly, mysteriously in the middle of a vast, uninhabited desert. If that is your mental image of the pyramids, think again. The Giza pyramids did once sit in…
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