Goats On The Road Posts
Bahariya: Spending the Night Under the Desert Stars
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 Bahariya. It took a day of bargaining a price, 6 hours driving and 8 ...
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Siwa Oasis For Budget Backpackers
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 blueprints have been made and the inevitable encroachment of our world onto theirs has begun. Soon ...
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Is Egypt Safe To Travel?
March 9 – 15 / 2011 We landed in Egypt on March, 9 / 2011 just after the revolution of the people had reached its boiling point and simmered off for a few days. We had mixed feelings about coming here. On one hand we were excited to see the country and knew that there ...
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What to Eat in Morocco
There’s nothing better than arriving in a country and discovering all the new foods, spices and smells. The food in Morocco isn’t spicy at all but every meal is perfectly seasoned with some main spices: cumin, cinnamon, nutmeg and a Moroccan ‘all spice’. Everything that we’ve sampled has been amazing, there isn’t anything we’ve tried ...
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Our First Impressions of Morocco
Ahh Morocco… still deciding if I like it or dislike it. In our experience, people can be rude, and even aggressive. But they can also be nice, generous, and hospitable. The latter being few and far between. The other travellers here are a mix of posh Europeans and dreadlocked hippies. The new cities or “Ville ...
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Where’s The Challenge?
We’ve done our time in England travelling around on busses and trains, slept at our hospitable friend’s house and travelled around the country with relative ease. We flew to Spain and took busses to our Marriott resort. We’ve taken busses to other cities in Spain and spent the day, ordering food and asking for directions, ...
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