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Egypt

Do donkeys have rabies?

August 22, 2010 Destinations

Finally riding on an “air-conditioned taxi” One of the good things about doing an organised tour is that it gets you involved in activities that you might otherwise avoid, like dancing around a fire with Nepalese guys in costumes while a skinny Santa atop an elephant looks on on Christmas Eve. Or, in this case, [...]

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Middle East Summary

August 15, 2010 Egypt

Days gone: 46* Average cost per day: $56.96 AUD (includes an 8 day tour in Egypt) Most memorable moment: Watching the night sky above Wadi Rum desert where it seemed the world was full of stars, and we saw five of them shooting across the sky. Moment I want to forget: Fronting up at the [...]

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Eating: Middle East

August 10, 2010 Destinations

Not that I’m dwelling on it, but it’s relevant for any post about food or eating: after we got sick in Syria, it lingered. Especially around Alicia, who didn’t take antibiotics. So the Middle East turned out not to be the culinary adventure we were hoping for. While breakfast was included in pretty much all [...]

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Photo Friday #7: Egypt

August 6, 2010 Egypt

When you’re travelling, every day is full of the new and the exciting. So much so that often you can become desensitized to what you’re seeing. But then, you find yourself somewhere – in this case, it was boarding a felucca to cross from the east bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt, to the [...]

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Touring Egypt Part 2

July 23, 2010 Destinations

For my brief trip to Egypt in between my time in Jordan and my flight to Hong Kong to meet my sister and some friends, I decided to join a group tour. You can read about my reasons for doing this and why I was a little nervous about it in Touring Egypt. This post [...]

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Touring Egypt

July 21, 2010 Destinations

Our original itinerary for the Middle East had us spending two weeks in Iran before crossing back into Turkey and onwards to Syria. Because Alicia had her passport stolen back in Hungary, it meant this was no longer possible – the pricey visa authorization code was for the wrong passport, and it would have taken [...]

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