Travel > Egypt
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Me and my Egyptian friend at Felfela Restaurant, Cairo
One of our favorite restaurants in Cairo, Felfela Restaurant, featuring good Egyptian food: I like best its falafel, lamb chop, lentil soup and om ali (dessert).
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The desert with a mirage in the distance
The mirage was captured on camera, on a trip in the Sahara.
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Town at Bahariya Oasis
Until that visit to the Bahariya Oasis, I had imagined an oasis as a pool of water in the desert, surrounded by date palms, a resting place for caravans of camels and travelers.
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Bahariya Oasis, in the Sahara
This is the kind of water source in an oasis in the Sahara nowadays.
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Crystal Mountain on the way to Bahariya Oasis
We saw crystals embedded in the rocks here, glittering and beautiful.
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The White Desert, Sahara
On the way to the Bahariya Oasis, these mushroom-shaped soft chalk structures (and in any shape of the imagination) in the Sahara were unique.
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Step Pyramid at Saqqara -- oldest pyramid
A tour of Saqqara with youngest son Tim when he joined us in Egypt in 2006.
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The Nile by night, Cairo
Always enchanting, the Nile sparkles as night falls.
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Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, Cairo
Lots of gold, silver and all kinds of souvenirs among the labyrinth of lanes of the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, busy by day and night