We just got back from Zanzibar and I posted a couple of photos on my facebook page.
Those monkeys crack me up.
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Category: Travel
Tickets have been purchased.
Tentative routing:
Cairo->Bangkok
Bangkok -> Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai->Hanoi
Hanoi->Hoi An
Hoi An->Nha Trang
Nha Trang->Saigon
Saigon->Mekong Delta
Delta->Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh->Siem Reap
Siem Reap->Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpir->Manila
Manila->Seattle
Man, I got tired just typing that out.
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Some Bangkok photos
A small page with a handful of our photos from Bangkok.
We did something different on this trip.
Normally we each have an SLR.
This trip we shared one SLR.
So some of these are mine, some of these are Kaddee’s.
The Wat Arun photos are definitely Kaddee’s photos. The rest, who knows.
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Photos from Paris
Yeah, it has only been a month and a half. It is hard to find time to process the photos.
Here are a dozen or so of my favorites.
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Merry Christmas from Kuala Lumpur
We are having a great time. The food is fabulous and our hotel *very* nice.
We have no computer with us, so we have sporadic access.
This is just a quick note to let you know we are alive.
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Mafeesh Convoy?
This article claims that the Egyptian government has lifted the restrictions on tourist travel.
For those of you that don’t know, traveling almost anywhere outside Cairo by car or bus involves a convoy. The 2 places where most people encounter this is
- on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan. There are many temples there, and most people can only get to them on a cruise or a bus tour.
- between Abu Simbel and Aswan
All the buses and cars have to meet at a checkpoint, and they all travel together. So they all arrive, more or less, together. Which means hundreds of tourists hitting the temple all at once. Such joy.
If the article is true, it means that it is should now be much easier to travel within Egypt.
It means, insh’allah, no hurtling death rides from Aswan to Abu Simbel.
It also means, insh’allah, that it will be possible to rent a car and travel alone at one owns pace down the nile and tour the temples when *I* want to, instead of arriving on a bus with 50 of my closest friends.
I am skeptical, because I have had to wait for a police escort when traveling even in areas that don’t require convoys…
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Veni, vidi, vomiti
Super short post.
We live in Cairo.
We are used to the heat
We go to Rome.
We go to Coliseum.
I get heat stroke, get dizzy, puke in the Coliseum, and collapse.
WTF?!? I live in Egypt and the heat in *ROME* knocks me on my ass?
All is fine now. More about (other, more pleasant aspects of our trip) later.
We just had 2 couples staying with us.
Before that was another set of friends.
Before that was some family.
Tomorrow another set of good friends arrive.
4 sets of visitors in just over a month.
It was lots of fun but it got me to thinking.
And I say:
“It is now your responsibility to move somewhere interesting so we can come visit. Work on that.”
So all those that have experienced the hospitality of Chez Jack & Kaddee, get cracking.
We will be home in a little over a year, insha’allah. And will be ready to travel in a year or so after that.
That gives you about 2 years.
Get busy.
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The Temple of Edfu.
We hit this temple just after sunset. It is fairly well lit.
I have a couple of photos I like here.
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The Locks at Esna
On our trip down the Nile from Luxor to Aswan we sailed through the locks at Esna.
I think the locks are cool.
Here are just a very small handful of photos.
[And by overwhelming demand of my loyal readers, we are back to using Picasa for photo webpages]