As I have less than 20 days in Iran, I could only see a part of it, and chose to follow the classic route recommended by the Lonely Planet. I flew from Tehran to Shiraz, a ~ 1000km and 2h…
Tehran
Arriving in Tehran by plane, I did the same game as in Cairo: no I don’t want to pay about 20€ for a taxi drive to the city center. So I take the bus, 10 times cheaper. But it was…
Last days in Amman
Mk introduced me to his friends in Amman and we got 3 very nice evening there! Either good restaurant or going to the nature around a fire and some songs, I got a wonderful time! Funnily, many of the girls…
Petra
Petra is the highlight in Jordan, recognized as one of new “Seven Wonders on the World” and they let you feel this: the entrance ticket doubled in the last 3 years, now 50 JD for 1 day, 55 for 2…
Amman to Petra
“Swimming” in the Dead Sea is an amazing experience. Actually, you can’t really swim because you stay over the water because of the over saturated salt. The Dead Sea is also dying, being always lower since the water coming from…
Alexandria
One of my motivations of my trip to Egypt was to meet Anita, a German girl I met back in Regensburg, Bayern some years ago! She is working in a German primary school in Alexandria as a teacher. Arriving in…
Dahab
Back in Cairo, I wanted to go to the white desert with some friends of Nagui, but they were not available these days. I was actually appreciable to rest instead a little in Cairo and deal with my pictures: I…
Egyptology in Upper Egypt – summary
I spent five days in Upper Egypt, traveling by train. While the Pyramid in Lower Egypt are the masterpieces of the Old Kingdom (and the tomb of Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty), the Upper Egypt is more related to the…
Pyramids day!
Friday is actually the day off in Egypt, some people go shopping. Phillip and I spend also an expensive day, but the very particular one: we hire a private taxi and went discovering the Pyramids, first Dahshur and Saqqara, then…