Author Archives: Jill
My Beach Office In Dahab
After flying from Luxor to Sharm El Sheikh (and of course sleeping in the Cairo airport since I didn’t book a more costly direct flight…) I had to figure out how to get from Sharm to Dahab which is about an hour away. Usually there is a bus that runs every hour and should have [...]
“Templed Out” in Luxor
From Aswan I took a taxi to Luxor that stopped at two famous archaeological sites along the way, the total journey taking about eight hours. I know what you’re thinking, whoa, Jill taking a taxi?!? Well, it was a shared ride with three other people and it only cost about $12 each. Once again, Egypt [...]
Abu Simbel Festival
From Alexandria I needed to find a way to get to Aswan, which is about 675 miles away. I decided to take the only direct train (which is for locals, tourists are supposed to take the sleeper class ones that originate in Cairo and cost three times more, but provide a bed). I have slept [...]
Alexandria
Alexandria offers all of the benefits of Cairo: cheap accommodation and food, without sacrificing on western amenities (and by this I of course mean internet and western toilets). But Alex also has several added benefits, which made it a very pleasant stop despite the colder temperatures (only about 55 for a high). After India and [...]
Real Life Pac-man – Cairo, Egypt
The first piece of advice that several random people gave me while walking down the streets of Cairo: “you know how to cross the road, right? Close your eyes and pray”. Well, I can see where they are coming from. Despite the fact that my hostel was only about a five minute walk from Tahrir [...]
My Adventure Getting Out of India
This is basically just venting… So read at your own peril. I left my hotel at 5am in Jaipur to make my flight to Muscat, Oman (layover on my way to Cairo). My experience trying to leave the country epitomizes my experience in India. Keep in mind that this was a relatively nice hotel I [...]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: My Experience in India…
Overall, now that I’ve made it out alive, I’m glad that I ventured to India despite many peoples warnings and general questions of “why in the world would you want to go there?”. With the amount of travelling that I’ve done, its hard to find a place that is completely different than what I’ve already [...]
India…
I arrived in Delhi at the airport and had arranged for a private driver to pick me up. For the convenience of not having to deal with touts, I paid the steep price of about $10 USD for the half hour journey into the city (metro would have cost less than a dollar). I nearly [...]
Off to India
I left Southeast Asia earlier than I had planned. I hesitated booking a scuba diving trip to the island of Sipadan (supposedly one of the best places to dive on earth) and then the flights to get to and from dramatically increased. And if I want the fancy-pants apartment overlooking Touchdown Jesus next year, sacrifices [...]
The “Fine” City, Singapore
Singapore is known as the “fine” city/country because of all of the things you can supposedly be fined for (littering, eating on the subway, etc.). You may remember an incident involving an 18-year old American citizen that was caned in Singapore in the early 1990’s for vandalism. Or you may be familiar with the notion [...]
