What is the allure of Uzbekistan, Lebanon and Egypt?” Friends question what in God’s name we’re doing visiting a post-Soviet state in Central Asia; a post-Civil War country bordering Syria and Israel; and a post-Arab Spring country in the north of Africa. iscovery of the ancient Silk Road draws us to Uzbekistan in …
PICASA WEB ALBUMS Double click on arrows in the Picasa Photo Albums and open into full screen to read the captions, or to play Slideshow. CAIRO LUXOR UP THE NILE ASWAN & ABU SIMBEL
ll ‘templed-out’ after a week in Egypt – in Cairo and on Sanctuary Sun Boat IV along the Nile. Despite the excellent story telling and hieroglyphics translations of our Egyptologist guide Amr, my trying to recall even the basics of 5,000 years of history of Pharaonic Egypt is well nigh an impossibility. No …
UP THE NILE – BY HORSE & CARRIAGE THROUGH LOCAL TOWN OF EDFU It’s not all temples, gods and goddesses on the cruise up the Nile . . . we have been ashore and through local towns from time to time Samsung awnings on so many stores are about the only hint of modernity …
o’clock in the morning – piling into the bus with a police escort to go sightseeing – and I’m delighted! (Not by the police escort.) After nearly expiring in the searing heat and hot wind walking across the desert in the Valley of the Queens and Valley of the Kings on the west bank …