Mark Twain described seeing the Great Pyramids of Giza for the first time in 1867 in his book Innocents Abroad : "At the distance ...

In his book Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses , Bruce Feiler writes: "If Egypt is the gift of ...

With a population of over ten million and ten million more people just outside the city, Cairo is the largest city in the Middle East and t...

The Luxor Temple was our sixth Egyptian Temple in three days. We had already been to the Philae, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Ramses III, and Karnak tem...

It's a bit embarrassing to realize how little I knew about Egypt before this trip. For example, I'd heard of Karnak, but I had no ...

When we were in Kenya last year, we had an opportunity to take a hot air balloon ride over the Masai Mara for $500/person.  That was much...

Earlier in our Egyptian travels we had been given a carriage ride from our boat to Edfu Temple  as part of our tour package. We got a seco...

Our next stop was the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, also known as the Habu Temple.  Much of my visual preparation for Egypt came from...