Requirements and Guidelines
I don’t know if our travel agent appreciates it or not, but here’s the list that I sent her about what we were looking for, and to check against the tour operators plans. Yes, I’m a little over-wound.
Read MoreQuestions for the Tour Operator
LIke I said,I’m thorough. These are the questions that I had for the tour operator (a very nice gentleman named Ashraf Michael from Ancient Adventures, who spent almost an hour answering them for me)
Read MoreMoney
The currency in Egypt is the Egyptian Pound (worth about sixteen cents as of April 2004). 1:00 USD = 6.16 EGP 1.00 EGP = 0.162 USD However, most upscale hotels expect US Dollars or Euros, and price their hotel rooms in these currencies. Most hotel will take payment in Egyptian Pounds, but prefer Dollars or […]
Read MoreItineraries
Time for a confession. I actually have color flowcharts of possible itineraries for this trip. Charts and graphs. Spreadsheets to compare “time at a site” with “travel time” weighed against number of things to see and distance. It’s embarrassing. I collected boatloads of information off the web and travel brochures and starting comparing individual itineraries […]
Read MoreCameras and Photography
On our last trip, we had a very nice Minolta 35mm camera and a fabulous Tamron 28-200 lens. It solved our photo problems — one camera, one lens — and was perfect for the trip. But we took 1100 pictures in Scotland and it cost over a thousand dollars to get everything processed. We had […]
Read MoreDigital vs Film
What about Film? If you still have a film camera and don’t want to go digital, I have a couple of recommendations for dealing with photography in Egypt: Remember that I’m not an expert — just a casual travel photographer, so I’m open to all suggestions! What Speed? You will either need to have some […]
Read MorePhotos Home
More photos than you can shake stick at, or, Digital Rules! I always assume that this is the part of the site that people gravitate towards (or at least that’s what my bandwidth usage seems to imply!). For our last trip, we had a film camera, a nice Minolta. We took 1100 pictures in three […]
Read MoreSites in Egypt
Just a list of the various things that travel books, websites, and the various resources have suggested that you might want to see in Egypt. Obviously, you are never going to be able to see them all, but I’ve added links where we did manage to see things. Arab/Muslim History Alexandria Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, Mosque […]
Read MoreHistoric Hotels
I love old buildings and old hotels — squeaky doors, sagging floors, the whole package. The options in Egypt are like stepping back into an Agatha Christie novel.
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