Cruising Egypt's Nile River
If you know anything about us, you might say Sonesta Nile Cruises was taking a risk inviting us to enjoy a 4-day 3-night river cruise from Aswan to Luxor, Egypt….
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I shot all of these on two occasions while we were cruising up the Nile. The ones of the boats were shot off the balcony of our cabin on the…
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali, Cairo, Egypt
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali (no relation to the boxer) in Cairo was built in the first half of the 19th Century by the then ruler of Egypt Muhummad Ali…
Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt
One of the best things about the Egyptian ruins that line the Nile is that most of them were only recently excavated. The famous Nile floods had buried them in…
The Pyramids at Giza, Egypt
Everyone has seen a million pictures of the pyramids at Giza, but you can't really do them justice until you see them up close. Or from a distance so you…
The Fascinating Jordan Museum, Amman
It’s remarkable in a country full of old stuff, like Jordan, to think how recently so much of it has been discovered. Since the re-discovery of Petra two hundred years…
