Egypt
Sydney Morning Herald (Jeremy Seal)
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- Facsimile Of Boy King’s Crypt Includes Lost Panel Reconstructed From Photographs
The Art Newspaper With photos. Tourists to Egypt will soon be able to visit the tomb of Tutankhamun without setting foot in the Valley of the Kings. A €500,000 life-size facsimile of the Boy King’s tomb and sarcophagus are to be installed in the...
- Travel: Convoys Abolished
The Times Online (Anthony Sattin) This is obviously such great news that lots of people have sent me links. This one on The Times was sent to me by Ann Van de Velde, with my thanks. For the past 10 years, if you wanted to see the treasures along the...
- Nile Cruises From Cairo To Luxor?
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I do wish that the Egyptian Gazette would archive its articles. Here goes with the latest from reporter Salah Attia, but it was too long to reproduce in full, so have...
- Travelling To Egypt With Children
http://tinyurl.com/d7fcu A travel article focusing on the pros and cons of taking two children, aged 9 and 11, on holiday to Egypt: "For the children, the highlights were going inside the Great Pyramid, taking a camel ride across the sand, spit-roasted...
Egypt
Travel: Taking children to Egypt
Sydney Morning Herald (Jeremy Seal)
I've more or less given up on travel stories because they are all pretty much the same, but this one may be of interest to those who have children and are planning to take them on a visit to the Nile valley. The solution of these parents was to split the holiday between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea coast.
A friend back home had warned us against making the standard assumption about our children's behaviour; a school project on Howard Carter or a passing interest in Cleopatra is no kind of preparation for the heat, crowds, accented commentaries and plain hassle that trailing around Egypt's antiquities tends to entail. "One pylon in," the friend promised, "one statue of Horus and they'll be turning fractious."
We plan our holiday accordingly, the two generations taking part in tough horse-trading to negotiate a settlement. The parents will have their time in Upper Egypt, getting their hit of antiquities, as long as the children get their spell on the beach.
Until last year, this would have meant submitting to the delay-prone military convoy whereby all visitors were ferried between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea. With the recent lifting of that particular aggravation, amid a general easing of the region's security situation, our two-centre arrangement merely entails a straightforward transfer across the Eastern Desert.
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- Facsimile Of Boy King’s Crypt Includes Lost Panel Reconstructed From Photographs
The Art Newspaper With photos. Tourists to Egypt will soon be able to visit the tomb of Tutankhamun without setting foot in the Valley of the Kings. A €500,000 life-size facsimile of the Boy King’s tomb and sarcophagus are to be installed in the...
- Travel: Convoys Abolished
The Times Online (Anthony Sattin) This is obviously such great news that lots of people have sent me links. This one on The Times was sent to me by Ann Van de Velde, with my thanks. For the past 10 years, if you wanted to see the treasures along the...
- Nile Cruises From Cairo To Luxor?
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I do wish that the Egyptian Gazette would archive its articles. Here goes with the latest from reporter Salah Attia, but it was too long to reproduce in full, so have...
- Travelling To Egypt With Children
http://tinyurl.com/d7fcu A travel article focusing on the pros and cons of taking two children, aged 9 and 11, on holiday to Egypt: "For the children, the highlights were going inside the Great Pyramid, taking a camel ride across the sand, spit-roasted...