The 6am bus ride (budget backpackers have no choice) from Dahkla to Asyut was uneventful, we were both super tired and slept for 4 hours out of the 7 hour ride. I was rudely awoken by my head banging against the window o...
After our trip backpacking through the incredible deserts near Bahariya, we continued on to yet another beautiful desert oasis called Dahkla, a budget backpacker’s haven. Boarding the bus in Bahariya we were lookin...
From the fabulous Oasis Town of Siwa, we negotiated a ride with a jeep driver (that fit in our backpacker budget). Us and our 2 Canadian friends were planning to cross the Great Sand Sea to the next Oasis town of Bahariy...
Siwa is more than an oasis in The Great Sand Sea, it is an oasis in the sea of modernity. One of the few places on Earth where the outside world has yet to completely corrupt and destroy. The blue prints have been made a...
March 9 – 15 / 2011 We landed in Egypt on March, 9 / 2011 just after the revolution of the people had reached it’s boiling point and simmered off for a few days. We had mixed feelings about coming here. On on...