Egypt
- Travel: Temples And Hot Air Balloons
The Mirror (David Walker) MEN have always been intoxicated by the heady trappings of power and ego. The proof? Pretend youre Doctor Who and take a trip back in time to Egypt. There you can view some of the worlds most incredible temples and statues dating...
- Travel Notes
Nile Cruise and Philae http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=32668 "Although the dams are of great value for cultivation, their construction meant the flooding of priceless historical monuments. One such monument was saved the Philae temple,...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Travel: A View From The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c (venturacountystar.com) A two-part day by day account of travelling from the U.S. to Cairo and then taking a cruise up the Nile from Aswan via Abu Simbel: "Aswan appeared much cleaner and more prosperous than Cairo. While still...
- Egypt's Other Wonders
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/story/43665p-65699c.htmlA brief travel piece about Abu Simbel: "Mankind spread beyond Africa some 30,000 years ago, the anthropologists tell us, but a significant number stayed along the banks of the Nile River. What they...
Egypt
Travel: Nile Cruise, Luxor and Abu Simbel
http://www.dailyherald.com/travel/story.asp?id=321340
Part two of Kathy Rodegheir's description of her visit to Egypt, this week taking in Abu Simbel and Luxor, via a Nile cruise: " Ramses II is what you might call a hunk. That commanding stare, those square shoulders, that taut torso and that copper-toned body all scream male machismo.And it helps that he's nearly 66 feet tall - sitting down.The statues of the famous pharaoh at Abu Simbel, a popular day trip for passengers cruising the Nile, take your breath away. Built to give fair warning of his power to the Nubians, and anyone entering Egypt from the south, Ramses' temple continues to wow foreigners some 3,000 years later."
Unfortunately, something appears to have gone badly wrong with the formatting, so that text runs together without any paragraphs or bullet points. As she has adopted a Q and A format in this piece, it is quite a struggle on the eyes to get through.
Part two of Kathy Rodegheir's description of her visit to Egypt, this week taking in Abu Simbel and Luxor, via a Nile cruise: " Ramses II is what you might call a hunk. That commanding stare, those square shoulders, that taut torso and that copper-toned body all scream male machismo.And it helps that he's nearly 66 feet tall - sitting down.The statues of the famous pharaoh at Abu Simbel, a popular day trip for passengers cruising the Nile, take your breath away. Built to give fair warning of his power to the Nubians, and anyone entering Egypt from the south, Ramses' temple continues to wow foreigners some 3,000 years later."
Unfortunately, something appears to have gone badly wrong with the formatting, so that text runs together without any paragraphs or bullet points. As she has adopted a Q and A format in this piece, it is quite a struggle on the eyes to get through.
Part 1 is at:
http://www.dailyherald.com/travel/story.asp?id=319389
http://www.dailyherald.com/travel/story.asp?id=319389
- Travel: Temples And Hot Air Balloons
The Mirror (David Walker) MEN have always been intoxicated by the heady trappings of power and ego. The proof? Pretend youre Doctor Who and take a trip back in time to Egypt. There you can view some of the worlds most incredible temples and statues dating...
- Travel Notes
Nile Cruise and Philae http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=32668 "Although the dams are of great value for cultivation, their construction meant the flooding of priceless historical monuments. One such monument was saved the Philae temple,...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Travel: A View From The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c (venturacountystar.com) A two-part day by day account of travelling from the U.S. to Cairo and then taking a cruise up the Nile from Aswan via Abu Simbel: "Aswan appeared much cleaner and more prosperous than Cairo. While still...
- Egypt's Other Wonders
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/story/43665p-65699c.htmlA brief travel piece about Abu Simbel: "Mankind spread beyond Africa some 30,000 years ago, the anthropologists tell us, but a significant number stayed along the banks of the Nile River. What they...