Top 10 Things to Do in Egypt for Kids
Egypt doesn’t necessarily spring to mind as a place to visit with children, which is weird given how scarily obsessed some kids can become with...
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Siwa: A Wild West Town in Egypt
There is something about the desert that sends folk stir crazy, and Siwa, a Wild West town in Egypt’s Western Desert, is about as crazy...
Photo Essay: The Sinai Desert
The Sinai desert is a place of many colours. The green palms of desert oases; the rich gold wind-rippled peaks of sand dunes. The wasteland...
Voices from Post-Revolutionary Egypt 4: The Guide
S is 40, and worked as a dive master before he started guiding tourists: he was married in his 20s but it didn’t last. Compact...
The Friday Photo: Bedouin Man, Sinai
Eid is 35, but looks older. As a child he worked in the Sinai desert, tending the family’s goats as they migrated in search of...
Voices from Post-Revolutionary Egypt 2: The Bedouin Girl
S is 15, beautiful, dark-skinned and slender, with a hawkish desert nose and a full upper lip, dressed in a fuchsia and turquoise traditional dress,...
What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down...
The Friday Photo: Quadbiking the Sinai Desert
As a mode of exploring anywhere, quadbiking checks all the wrong boxes. It’s noisy, polluting, carbon-intensive, touristy and, in some places, environmentally destructive — but...
The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars...