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Apr 17, 2019
Day Tripping Around Cape Town, South Africa
It had been over three weeks since I left my phone in the airport in Amman, Jordan. Fortunately, A good samaritan found it and turned it...
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Apr 14, 2019
At Home in Cape Town, South Africa
While we were traveling in the Middle East, we were heartbroken to hear about the Ethiopian Airlines crash in Addis Abbaba. This became...
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Apr 10, 2019
Exploring The Valley of the Kings and Old Cairo, Egypt
It had been over a week and my iPhone was still at the airport in Amman, Jordan. Our tour of Egypt was almost complete. The Lost and...
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Apr 7, 2019
Luxor, Egypt
Continuing our tour with Encounters Travel, we have toured Jordan, Cairo, and the pyramids and spent a couple of days sailing the Nile on...
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Apr 3, 2019
Denial on the Nile, Visiting Temples & Sailing Feluccas in Aswan, Egypt
I was surprised to have slept as well as I did on the train from Cairo to Aswan. The train trip took twelve hours and we slept for the...
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Mar 31, 2019
The Egyptian Prescription, Meeting Mummies and Making Memories
On the sixth day of our tour of Jordan and Egypt with Encounters Travel we flew from Amman to Cairo. Our flight was relatively short. It...
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Mar 13, 2019
Atlas Mountains, Morocco
In December, we flew from Portugal to Marrakech, Morocco for twelve days and stayed in a beautiful riad in the middle of one of the...
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Dec 9, 2018
The Medina, Marrakech, Morocco
“Did you enjoy your holiday in Morocco?” I asked, striking up a conversation with my seat mate on our flight to London. “The people were...
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