Egypt

The Taliban requires women to wear a burqa so as not to "tempt" men sexually. I got some advice for you guys: put your big boy pants on, think with…

it was originally one of the largest and most significant libraries in the ancient world. When Julius Caesar was cut of by a fleet of Egyptian boats in the harbor…

I thought it would be fun to stay at a nubian hotel on bigeh island renowned for its view of philae temple. It took several minutes to get the motor…

the view of Philae temple from the Solain restaurant on Bigeh Island is really great at night as is the nubian food served there. I was given a tour of…

Ramses favorite wife and great love was Nefertari who was known as the most beautiful Egyptian queen on earth. She was physically fit, fashionable and skilled at diplomatic negotiations. Ramses…

it was constructed as a place for people to worship Ramses II as a god following his death.

Engineered so that light from the sun goes through the temple during planting and flooding seasons and with such precision that Phah - god of darkness - remains in the…

built by Ramses II to intimidate his enemies and seat himself among the gods, it is considered one of the grandest of temples in all of Egypt. Four colossal statues…

In a remarkable feat of engineering, the temple complex was dismantled, moved from its original location on the banks of the Nile, and rebuilt on a higher hill near Lake…

A felucca is a traditional wooden sail boat used by ancient Egyptians to travel their freeway, the Nile. I took one to sail around elephatine island - one of the…