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Is it safe to visit the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt?

What can I say about Dahab without making it seem understated? That its golden mountains at sunset have an ethereal […]

May 21, 2020

I first visited Luxor temples sometime during 2010. It was during my first visit to Egypt. On my second visit, […]

May 12, 2020

Luxor is to Egypt, what Agra or Jaipur is to India. It is the crown jewel of the Egyptian tourism […]

May 11, 2020

A friend of mine recently summed up Edfu as ” the people are hospitable, the sunsets immaculate, the memories everlasting”. […]

May 10, 2020

The Nile Cruise is a time honoured way to explore Egypt. During the nineteenth and early twentieth-century travelers, a Nile […]

May 9, 2020

Located on the Nile a 45 kilometers away from Aswan, Kom Ombo is dedicated to Sobek, the Pharaonic crocodile god. […]

May 8, 2020

On my first visit to Egypt, I very much looked forward to the overnight train journey to Aswan. The maddening […]

May 8, 2020

“You are going to Aswan, then you must get me some peanuts and karkade. Aswan souq is the best place […]

May 7, 2020

Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses had a vast, elaborately connected network and their mythological stories rival our own Indian ones […]

May 6, 2020

Aswan is my favourite place in Egypt. It has the loveliest setting on the Nile and the river there is […]

May 5, 2020