There are ways of romanticizing Cairo, but I want to be clear from the get-go: it is, on the whole, a rather dirty and ugly city. The suburbs in particular, which I usually witnessed from a taxi windo…
Hidden away on the South Sinai coast, Dahab is the kind of place I didn’t know Egypt had. In a land where most tourists will cruise the Nile on a luxury boat (often as part of a package holiday) or st…
Entering the Giza archaeological zone for the first time, I’d been bracing myself for the worst. For years I’d been hearing how the world’s most famous monument is actually far from a revelatory exper…
Visiting Cairo for Ancient Egypt’s wonders used to mean traveller’s whiplash — wonder one moment, frustration the next. Egypt’s awe-inspiring past would constantly collide with the harsh reality of st…
The approach Egypt is taking with the expansion is different from some of the major airport projects now under development elsewhere in Africa.
After several months living here, this chilled beach town is my happy place in Egypt. Unlike some of the top tourist destinations packed with archaeological sites, Dahab’s activities are relaxed and w…
I spent two months living in Dahab (the first volunteering at a cat shelter and the second working remotely and scuba diving) during my solo trip to Egypt. As a dedicated foodie whose life’s passion i…