In the sticky Bahariyya tourist office I picked the New Oasis Hotel based purely on the fact that it listed having private baths. The bus trek from Cairo had been harrowing not because of the distance, but because everything in Egypt involves an aggravating, albeit humorous, amount of hassle. In...
I woke up at 6:20 in the morning to a phone call.
“Becca, we have to leave in ten minutes!”
It was Eugene, my travel buddy. My alarm clock had somehow failed to go off. Without showering, without even brushing my teeth I grabbed my backpack, filled it with the last minute things I forgot...
On my third day in Cairo, I jumped on the rickety subway, with no map or plan, and hopped into the first car that came my way. I wanted to get far enough out of downtown that I wasn’t surrounded by tourists, but not so far away that I’d be in the middle of nowhere. I went about eight stops...
A great way to end your trip to Cairo is to float down the Nile in a felucca, locally known as a dok-dok and the thought that 5,000 years ago somebody was probably doing the same is immeasurable. With the breeze cooling the late afternoon temperatures, the call of the muezzin in the background, the...