After four days in Cairo, it was time to move on to bigger and better things. Actually no, it was time to move on to smaller cities and hopefully better weather! We took the overnight train from Cairo to Aswan – my first overnight train experience. Although the train was scheduled to depart at 10:00 …
After spending my first few days in Cairo on my own, I finally met up with my tour group from Gecko’s Adventures on the fourth day. The tour, called Nile & Sinai Revealed, would cover Cairo, Aswan, Luxor and Dahab over about two weeks. Unlike th Contiki tours from my younger days, my Gecko’s group …
After a dreary, cloudy, drizzle-filled first day in Cairo, I was not thrilled to wake up my third morning to the sound of pouring rain and crazy wind outside. I had heard Cairo typically only got four or five days of rain each year and somehow I had already been there for two of them. …
I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Cairo. First, an overnight flight from Chicago to Paris. Then, a long layover in Paris during which I spent most of the time snoozing on some uncomfortable chairs in the transit area, using my shoulder bag as a pillow. Finally, my bleary-eyed self walked off the …
It was still dark outside when I stepped into the back of a white van idling in front of my Zamalek hotel. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little (okay, a lot) nervous. Here I was, my second day in Egypt, getting into a van with two Egyptian men to drive me …
“The stuff on the news is nothing, Egypt the way we know it is over…it is a full scale revolution and the people will wake up to a different country tomorrow…if they ever go to sleep.” I read this statement on Facebook a few days ago, on the second day of protests in Cairo and …
