What can I say about Dahab without making it seem understated? That its golden mountains at sunset have an ethereal glow, and the Red Sea is the colour of pures...
I first visited Luxor temples sometime during 2010. It was during my first visit to Egypt. On my second visit, I chose to skip them owing to the crowds and the ...
Luxor is to Egypt, what Agra or Jaipur is to India. It is the crown jewel of the Egyptian tourism and is the most popular destination in the country. Luxor mean...
A friend of mine recently summed up Edfu as " the people are hospitable, the sunsets immaculate, the memories everlasting". Edfu was all of that and more. On my...
The Nile Cruise is a time honoured way to explore Egypt. During the nineteenth and early twentieth-century travelers, a Nile cruise was the highlight of their E...
Located on the Nile a 45 kilometers away from Aswan, Kom Ombo is dedicated to Sobek, the Pharaonic crocodile god. The approach to the temple from the river is v...
On my first visit to Egypt, I very much looked forward to the overnight train journey to Aswan. The maddening energy of Cairo's Ramses station, however, left me...
"You are going to Aswan, then you must get me some peanuts and karkade. Aswan souq is the best place for them", said my sister-in-law when I told her that I was...
Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses had a vast, elaborately connected network and their mythological stories rival our own Indian ones in their larger than life...
Aswan is my favourite place in Egypt. It has the loveliest setting on the Nile and the river there is as blue as sapphire. The water beautifully reflects th...