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Egypt Itinerary

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 15, 2017
Post category:Africa 🌍Egypt 🇪🇬travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Part 1 Day 1: London - Cairo - Bahariya => Overnight flight from London to Cairo and from airport we immediately started our journey towards desert. The night was spent at a nice hotel in El Bawiti Day 2: Baharia - Black Desert - White Desert => Continued our journey towards white desert . Camped overnight at white desert. Day 3: Dakhla Oasis => From white desert to Dakhla Oasis through Farafra Oasis Day 4: Kharga Oasis => From Farafra to Kharga Oasis. Day 5: Kharga Oasis to Luxor => Kharga Oasis to…

Camping in White Desert

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:April 25, 2017
Post category:Adventure Africa 🌍Camping Egypt 🇪🇬travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Shadows were getting longer. It was late afternoon; we were driving through the white desert in Egypt; afternoon sunlight on an eerie shape of wind carved sandstone resembled a lonely camel far away. We were on the second day of our desert safari. We started from El Bawati village in Bahariya oasis after breakfast. Our first stop was "Sahara Suda", Black Desert; the ground to right and left covered with black stones which are black volcanic eruptions from centuries ago. English mountain is the highest point in the black desert and…

Egypt : Desert route from Cairo to Luxor

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:January 4, 2017
Post category:Adventure Africa 🌍backpacking Desert Egypt 🇪🇬Landscape travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Day 1 & 2 21/22- 12- 2102 Cairo - White Desert Our desert journey started immediately after we landed at Cairo airport . The car was waiting for us to pick us up from airport , we bypassed Cairo city and proceed towards the desert. On the we saw unfinished apartment blocks illegally occupied by homeless families, these were the effort of previous regime to provide mass housing for citizens. We saw glimpse of Giza pyramids over skyscrapers before entering in Desert. Twenty two kilometers from beginning of the road the railway from Helwan…

Luxor: Balloon ride over Kings Valley

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:February 9, 2012
Post category:Adventure Africa 🌍City Egypt 🇪🇬travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Mansoor told me, “you should definitely do a balloon ride in Luxor”. I was not sure ; $150 sounded expensive. He finally convinced me. Next morning at 4 AM a mini bus came to pick us up. They collected people from various hotels and then took us outside city. The ground was huge. All companies operate from here. There were probably close to 100 balloon which were getting ready to be air-borne. We went up at the break of dawn. Weather was cold and bit foggy. It was amazing to watch first rays…