Goats On The Road Posts
Asyut, Egypt – Amazing People, Amazing Experiences
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 over and over again…the roads here aren’t exactly pothole free. I looked over ...
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Quasr & Mut: Let’s Stop In For A “Shai”
After our trip backpacking through the incredible deserts near Bahariya, we continued on to yet another beautiful desert oasis called Dahkla, a backpacker’s haven. Boarding the bus in Bahariya we were looking forward to a relatively quick 6 hour bus ride over to Dahkla. But, as in most Egyptian bus journeys, it ended up being ...
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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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