Abu Simbel is a minibus ride away. You leave in the night and get there in the morning. There is a government sponsored caravan to protect the tourists from muggers and kidnappers. People are only allowed to go there in this manner.
The minibus drops us off at several different spots for a designated amount [...]

The next day, we grab the typical Egyptian breakfast and head towards that ferry that will take us to the other side of the Nile and to the hallmark Egyptian sites in Luxor. On the other side of the Nile hordes of taxi drivers yell at us trying to take us for as much as [...]

Eric and I look an overnight train down to Luxor. All the trains were sold out and we had to wait until 12 in the morning to board a train. The policy here in Egypt is that tourists have a separate type of train. It is usually the slightly faster train and also the one [...]

This morning we are taking a daytrip to Alexandria. I was able to get into contact with Thu, the Seattleite who I met on the stone bridge in Wadi Rum. Later tonight Eric and I will also catch a train down to Luxor to see the premiere Egyptian ruins, so we leave our bags in [...]

We had actually run into Paulina and Nick randomly in the lobby our hotel the morning that we left to go see the pyramids. They are here with Prue and Georgia and coincidentally picked our hotel. Today is the first real feel day we’ve had in Cairo and we can get explore more of it [...]

The following day Eric and I along with another American from New York book a taxi to take us around to all the Pyramids. Apparently there are hundreds of pyramids in Egypt and only a handful of famous.

The first stop is Dahshur, followed by the Red Pyramid, the Stepp Pyramid, Memphis and finally Giza. I [...]

I arrived to Cairo on the night bus with Eric. They played ridiculously loud football match the entire time until 2 or 3 in the morning. We arrive in Cairo around 7am and it is really freaking cold. Luckily Eric is carrying a lonely planet and we find, ironically, a hotel called Dahab. The two [...]

Dahab is such a relaxing atmosphere. Basically everyone just hangs out along the restaurants all day. You can rent snorkeling gear everywhere and at less than 10meters off the shore, there are extravagant reef systems. These corals are much more impressive than the ones in Nuweba there is much more depth to this ecosystem.

The [...]