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Welcome to Cairo: Ma’a salÄ?ma
It’s loud, it’s dirty, it’s chaotic – it’s Cairo and I love it! What the…?!? Expecting the worst but hoping for the best, our Cairo experience really began in the departure lounge for Singapore...
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Summer is coming to Sydney!
Seven Mile Beach Summer is well and truly on it’s way to Sydney with the temperatures rising and the bush fire season officially underway. The mood of the city has lifted with the departure of a...
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Hot Air Ballooning in Luxor
After a hideous 3:45am wake up call it was time to stroll the 50 meters from our cruise boat to the motorboat which would take us across the Nile River to a waiting minibus. A short (but fast!) 10...
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Valley of the Kings
Another day in Egypt and another step back in time to a land centuries ago. Traveling along the Nile on an 8 day cruise, today was all about the West Bank of Luxor, or Thebes as it was called in the...
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My Favorite Temple in Egypt
Our trusty taxi! There are many, many temples to be seen as you travel along the Nile River through Upper Egypt, some well known and often visited, others sitting lonely on the banks with few if any...
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Aswan – My New Favorite City
Flying from Cairo to Aswan you get a sense of the size of Egypt, mile after mile of sandy desert interspersed with the odd abandoned building and the occasional siting of the green belt along the Nile...
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Temple Fatigue vs. Awesome Guide in Egypt
Temple fatigue – it happens in Egypt, it happens in Asia and it happens in Europe, only there it’s called church fatigue. Basically, there are only so many ancient/old sites you can see before they all...
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Abu Simbel Tours & Travel Tips
When you do your checklist of things to see and do in Egypt, there’s one pretty amazing place that better be on it. Of course you will see the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx, check out King Tutankhamun’s...
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Robbie vs the Pharaoh
Just when I think nothing interesting is in the news lately, along comes a novelty story combining 2 of my favorite things of the moment – Egypt and Robbie Williams (British pop star for the Americans...
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Nile River Cruise – Cruising Egyptian style
In my non-stop quest to make Viator the one-stop source of information for travel to Egypt… My husband and I are not what we would call ‘cruise’ people. We have never done an extended cruise and have...
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My husband the Egyptian god…
From the moment he discovered there is an Egyptian god called Amun-Ra, my husband Eamonn pronounced himself a god. The fact he is not an Egyptian living 4,000 years ago in the time of Pharoahs and...
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Happy Coptic Christmas
To my Christian friends in Egypt – Happy Christmas to you! The majority of Christians in Egypt belong to the Coptic Orthodox church, one of the oldest denominations of the Christian faith, and they...
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A Simple Lesson in Australian History
I’m ashamed to admit I know only the bare essentials of Australian history – Captain Cook found us and decided to stick around, Ned Kelly ran around the country with a tin on his head, the ANZACs did...
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Travel Tips for Egypt
I traveled to Egypt for the first time and enjoyed it a lot. I did not know what to expect and arrived in Cairo with some trepidation about a culture, religion and way of life I didn’t understand. I...
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Commemorating ANZAC Day in Turkey and Australia
The UK has Remembrance Day, the US has Memorial Day and Down Under we have ANZAC Day. Every child in Australia and New Zealand knows December 25 is Christmas Day, and April 25 is ANZAC Day. During our...
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