Being the budget conscious travelers we are we obviously were shopping around for the cheapest way possible to get from South Africa to New Zealand. Low and behold one obvious winner rose to the top; Qatar Airlines. The only catch – it’s a 72 hour flight with horrendous layovers in Qatar and Melbourne. With a […]
Hurghada, Egypt was our last stopover on our tour of Egypt. After many days of non-stop go-go see-see travel we were actually ready for a couple days of beach relaxation. Situated on the Red Sea, this former fishing village exploded over the past ten years and become a very popular beach and diving destination. Most […]
After 14 hours on the train (10 of which we were soundly asleep) we arrived in Aswan. With one foot still on the train we were greeted by our next Memphis Tours representative. Minutes later we were driven to the dock where we boarded a small boat that taxied us half way across the Nile […]
The next stop on our Egyptian extravaganza was a four-day three-night cruise on the Nile River. With images from the movie Queen of the Nile rummaging through my head, we boarded our vessel “Alyssa”. With approximately 60 rooms, the Alyssa was somewhere in between a riverboat and a large Caribbean style cruise ship. We were […]
Egypt is a land of superlatives. One of the three oldest civilizations in the world, the land of the pharaohs experiences a convergence of culture and history both ancient and modern. After our first day in Giza seeing all that the west side of the Nile and ancient Cairo had to offer, we set off […]
