Journeys to Egypt

First journey to Egypt (1999): Hurghada and a lot of excursions

Bianca and Simon travelled in July/August 1999 per Last Minute offer to Egypt and planned to stay one week with only bathing, swimming, relaxing in Hurghada... a typical tourism resort at the Red Sea Side. However, it went "different" ... Please read our travel-diary!

Second journey to Egypt (2001): Nile-Cruise

In October 2001 Simon and Bianca travelled once more to Egypt, this time in company of are girl-friend of Bianca and her husband. We lived in a cruise-ship for one week and did a lot of excursions on the land, for example to the desert, to Abu Simbel, to the temples of Luxor, Karnak, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, to the Valley of the Kings and a lot more. Of course, there was also some camel-riding - all under the banner of "The Mummy"! ;)

Third journey to Egypt (2005): Nile-Cruise

In October 2005 my mother Irene and I went on a Nile Cruise. I will place the diary of that tour very soon in English on my page. Give me a few days or monthes! :))

Fourth journey to Egypt (2006): Cairo

In August 2006 my mother Irene and I travelled to Cairo, to stay there for a week and to visit, of course, a lot of pyramids, temples, ancient places, and the Egyptian Museum.

Fifth journey to Egypt (2007): Lake Nasser- and Nile-Cruise, El Gouna

In August 2007 my mother and me went on a very special Egypt tour: first we went by boat on the Lake Nasser: sailing from Abu Simbel to Aswan. There we changed the boat, going with the bigger boat to Luxor, from where we took a bus throught the Western desert to El Gouna, a sun paradise lying on the shore of the Red Sea. I will place a dairy soon!!

Sixth journey to Egypt (2008): Nile-Cruise

In January/February 2008 my mother Irene and I went on another Nile Cruise - visiting other temples and places than on our earlier voyages. So we have seen the tomb sof the Nobles in Aswan as well as the monstery of Simeon, the quarry on the West Side, the Nubian Museum and a beautiful Sound-and-Light-Show in Philae. In Luxor we saw Medinet Habu and the Ramasseum, the tombs of the Nobles and Deir el Medina. We went to Abydos. - Also we visited some temples we visited the years before: in Edfu, in Kom Ombo and Dendera.

Seventh journey to Egypt: 1 day (2008) !!!

On 27th July, 2008, we arrived by cruise ship in Port Said. From there we drove to Kairo for a one-day-tour, because it was the first time for my nieces, 11 years old, to be in Egypt and they would like to see the pyramdis l

Eighth journey to Egypt: 2 days (October 2008) !!!

On the 20th and 21st October, 2008, we stopped in Alexandria when cruising with the "Norwegian Jade" through the Eastern Mediterranian Sea. It was very interesting to see life in another - diverse - Egyptian city. We went through the city by feet and by doing this we've seen very much and were impressed on Alexandria's mixture of East and West which is the legacy of the city's history.