I woke up shivering and looked around with bleary eyes. It had been a rough night. Sand had crept into every crevice and even the insides of my ears were filled...
Siwa travel is no longer a rare dream and nowadays it is quite easy to visit this once-forgotten forgotten place. The lucrative business of salt mining and drip...
I have not met anyone who did not like Dahab. Literally meaning “gold” in Arabic, Dahab can be best described as the "Goa of Egypt". Though I usually hate descr...
The most popular way to travel between Aswan and Luxor is by Nile Cruise. Alternatively, Upper Egypt can be explored by train and a very enjoyable road tr...
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...
The four islands group of Socotra are located around 217 nautical miles off the Yemeni coast and approximately 130 off the coast of Somalia. This well kept Yeme...
"It is not down in any map, True places never are" - Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra Island. It is one of the most fascinating destina...
The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of sifting through what matters and affects us direct...
The Corona lockdown has hit me hard. I am going absolutely berserk. Being in Egypt feels like an imposition now and I desperately crave for India. Billions of p...