In honor of finishing my first draft of my book Travels Through Egypt I am posting a section on the guys who rent the camels, which is a favorite story – enjoy! Everyone visiting Egypt wants their picture taken on a camel. There is therefore no shortage of enterprising young men who hover as close as the Pyramid [...]
Tags: Cairo, Egypt, Giza Plateau, group travel, pyramids, riding a camel, sacred site travel, spiritual tour, spiritual travel, the Great Pyramid
Ramadan, the most important Muslim holiday, is celebrated for the whole month, and it changes almost everything about Cairo. Ramadan is a time to get closer to God, making self-sacrifices to be awake and aware of your choices, so people fast all day every day during the month of Ramadan.
Tags: Celebrating Ramadan, Egypt, Egypt travel, Khan El Khalili, Ramandan, Spirit Quest Tours, spiritual tour, spiritual travel, travel memoir, travel stories, travel writing
After you’ve been in Egypt for a little while, even a week, you start to realize that a basic understanding of Arabic must start with the following conversation: “Saba al khir?” (There are three ways to say Good Morning in Arabic, and this is the most common one. It means “Morning the Good.”) “Saba al [...]
Tags: arabic, conversational Arabic, Egypt, Egypt travel, Mohamed Nazmy, speaking arabic, talking arabic, travel memoir, travel stories, travel writing
Today we drove to Alexandria. It’s about 3 hours from Cairo by bus (with a 20 minute rest stop at the largest souvenir mall we can find), through desert being largely claimed by homesteaders, and – increasingly frequently – builders creating communities out in the middle of nowhere. This is distance it once would have [...]
Tags: Alexandria, bus tour, Egypt, Egypt tour, Egypt travel, group tour, group travel, spiritual tour, travel with group
The price tag was kind of hefty. I mean, $110 a person, for one night, one meal? This is Luxor, Egypt, not Luxor, Las Vegas. We had checked into the hotel that morning, and we weren’t really sure what to expect. Boy, were we in for a surprise. It was, after all, the Sonesta St. [...]
Tags: Egypt, Luxor, sonesta hotel, sonesta st. george, spirit quest, spiritual tour, spiritual travel, st. george hotel
This is the 2nd excerpt from my work-in-progress memoir, Travels Through Egypt. This is the last part of chapter 3. If you have a suggestion for the name, let me know. I’m about halfway through writing it, and I’ll try to publish a chapter a week. *** Food helps to ground me, but for two [...]
Tags: ancient egypt, Cairo, Egypt, Emil Shaker, Graham Hancock, Greg Braden, Karnak, Luxor, Marianne Williamson, Mohamed Nazmy, Nile cruise, Nile tour, Quest Travel, travel memoir, travel writing
This is the first entry in the excerpts of my work-in-progress Egypt memoir, tentatively titled, “Travels Through Egypt” (if you can think of a name you like better – that still has the word Egypt in it – please let me know!) After 10 years of travel to many cities throughout Egypt, and with 5 [...]
Tags: ancient egypt, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt Trip, Great Pyramid, Karnak, Luxor, Mena House, Nile cruise, Nile tour, Sphinx, Spirit Quest Tours, spiritual travel, travel memoir, travel stories, travel writing
Most of the guests who come on our trips have never been to Egypt before – hey, some of them have never left their country before! We want to make everyone comfortable and at ease, but we do always get the same questions in advance of a trip and after ten years, I thought this should be the first thing I address in my brand new blog!
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