Monthly Archives: January 2011

Find the Jude – medieval mud brick fort edition

Posted on January 25, 2011 by bernie

In which Jude is lost (OK OK, I was lost) in a giant mud brick citadel. Continue reading →

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White Desert safari

Posted on January 15, 2011 by bernie

With an old white jeep and a resourceful and refreshingly quiet Bedouin guide called Faraq, we headed out into the White Desert, a few hundred kilometres south-west of Cairo. Continue reading →

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Floating down the nile

Posted on January 8, 2011 by bernie

In Aswan there is only one place where you don’t get hassled by Felucca captains trying to sell you a trip, and that’s on board a Felucca. With that in mind, we braced ourselves for haggling and entered the Corniche el Nil to run the gauntlet of boat hawkers. Continue reading →

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