Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Egypt
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Boldlygosolo can also be found on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/boldlygosolo, as you may already know from all my tweets from Egypt. I remind you of this in case you are into twitter and would like to follow information about vacations and travel via a twitter account. For those of you not that familiar with it (yet),…
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Friends often seem just to appear when you're traveling solo, as I've written in many previous posts. But I enjoyed this amusing blog post on four ways to up the odds, written by Travel Betty. She describes those times when you just want to talk to someone instead of being on your own. An abbreviated…
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http://widget-05.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf The Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx and the Nile are generally what come to mind when people imagine Egypt. Fewer people know much about the temples at Abydos, Dendara, Edfu and Kom Ombo, to name a few of the ancient sites. Egypt seems a relatively safe place to visit solo – due to high…
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For solo travelers, twitter.com can be a beautiful thing. Many people who hesitate to travel alone complain that they have no one to share the experience with. I found that downloading random thoughts about my travels in Egypt was hugely satisfying as a sharing technique. I sent off mini-blog posts just about anywhere I was.…
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Nubians with their dark skin and galabeyas. Women in colorful head scarves or abayas. Children shouting "hello" and "Obama, Obama" to Americans. Egyptian families visiting the Pyramids during school vacation. Vendors at Khan El Khalili, the Cairo souk. If you've been to Egypt you can imagine the colorful chaos of the place. If you haven't,…
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Many people bring cartouches home from Egypt. When you see them on the walls at temples they are oblong carvings filled with hieroglyphics giving information about the luminaries. Some people buy cartouche necklaces with their names in hieroglyphics. Others buy imitations of the temple walls. I bought a key chain just for the memory. I…
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Nile Cruise is over. Now we have several days in Luxor before returning to crazy Cairo. Keep reading updates to the right! (unless there's somewhere I haven't been able to connect.) (At this point you should go to twitter.com/boldlygosolo and scroll down to the first two weeks of February to read about Egypt.) Our hotel…
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Keep reading updates on travel around Egypt. To your right. (At this point you should go to twitter.com/boldlygosolo and scroll down to the first two weeks of February to read about Egypt.)
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Okay, twitter is working here in Egypt so I will continue to send short updates, as you can see on the right. (At this point you should go to twitter.com/boldlygosolo and scroll down to the first two weeks of February to read about Egypt.) On the itinerary for Thursday: Visits to the Giza Pyramids, Sphinx and…
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I want to say that I'm winging my way to Egypt as we speak. But we're not speaking and I don't know when exactly you're reading this. So I'll say this: I'm headed to Egypt Monday night, where I will be for two weeks. Yes, Egypt. Land of pyramids and papyrus shops, Memphis and museums,…
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