Category: World Travels
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Amazing Amboseli National Park- Kenya
Aug 17-19, 2023 This is the last post of our African safari, Amboseli National Park in Kenya. If you missed our first three African posts, they were Our African Stopover in Nairobi, Where the Wild Things Are and Tantalizing Tanzania. More game drives? You bet! This was our final safari event before heading back to…
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Tantalizing Tanzania
Our African safari – part 2 Aug 14-16 2023 After the excitement of our previous day’s game drives, it was time to buckle up for a day-long drive to our next destination – Serengeti National Park. In case you missed our previous safari posts they are here and here. It took about 4 hours to…
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Where the Wild Things are -Kenya
Our wild and wonderful safari – part 1 Aug 11-13, 2023 We’d been dreaming forever about doing an African safari, and couldn’t wait to jump into the 4×4 Land Cruiser and get started! A safari adventure had come calling to us when our original plans to visit Peru were thwarted by political unrest earlier this…
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Our African safari stop-over -Nairobi, Kenya
Aug 8-10, 2023 Experiencing an African safari has been on our must-do list for many years, and we ticked it off a few weeks ago in Kenya and Tanzania. While doing so, we traveled through the bustling city of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, several times. This is the connecting point for safari adventures in…
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Jewels of Jordan
Day 52-56, Sept 8-13, 2022 This was the final leg of our 56-day itinerary with back-to-back cruises. It ended in Jordan, which was a post-cruise extension of our Pharaohs and Pyramids River Cruise. After a week on the Nile River, we boarded a plane from Luxor back to Cairo where we spent a day visiting…
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Templed-out, but still wowed – Upper Egypt
Days 46-50, Sept 3-7, 2022 This is the 5th of 6 blog posts covering our Pharaohs and Pyramids River Cruise. If you missed our previous posts, feel free to review them here. During our seven days cruising the Nile River, we visited 9 temples. And yes, we were templed-out by the last day. However, each…
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Life On And Along the Nile River- Upper Egypt
Days 46 -50; Sept 3-7, 2022 For this post I decided to take a break from talking about temples, tombs, pharaohs and queens. Instead I’ll share scenery of life on the river, along the river and on board the ship as we cruised upper Egypt for five days. We did make stops at Qena, Esna,…
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Tombs That Left Us In Awe – West Bank, Luxor
Day 46 – Sept 3, 2022 Our program director/Egyptologist Mohamed had us on the bus by 8:00am for a full day of adventure, and with a predicted high of 107º we knew it was going to be a hot one. We were reminded to bring water, hats, sturdy shoes, sunglasses, and to lather up with…
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From The Air And On The Ground – Luxor, Egypt
Day 44-45; Sept 1-2, 2022 It was only a one-hour flight from Cairo to Luxor, and we were happy to arrive to calm and quiet. What a difference the two destinations make. It was striking, where Cairo was loud, frantic and overwhelmed by locals, Luxor welcomed us with empty streets and serenity. Yes! We were…
