Capital: Cairo | Language: Arabic | Currency: Egyptian Pound | Religion: Islam, Coptic Christian | Population: 95 million
What’s not to love about travelling in Egypt?? Bravely dodging traffic to explore Cairo ‘The City of 1,000 Minarets’. Drifting on the Nile aboard a felucca at sunrise, sunset, and any time in between. Speeding through the desert on one minibus after another, slowing down only when camels cross the road. Smoking shisha and drinking tea at chilled out riverbank cafes. There’s so much more to Egypt than beach resorts or group tours to the pyramids.
We set off with one-way tickets to Cairo. We didn’t have an itinerary – just the idea that we’d head south and try to make it to Cape Town. And we did. Here are some of the highlights from a trip down the length of a continent.
Our visas came earlier than expected and after a very long day of travel we made it from Egypt to Sudan. Plus, we learned a few things about traveling in Sudan, on the way.
If you happen to be waiting around in Aswan, Egypt, for your visa to Sudan, don’t worry – there are plenty of things to do in Aswan.
We set off with one-way tickets to Cairo. We didn’t have an itinerary – just the idea that we’d head south and try to make it to Cape Town. And we did. Here are some of the highlights from a trip down the length of a continent.
Our visas came earlier than expected and after a very long day of travel we made it from Egypt to Sudan. Plus, we learned a few things about traveling in Sudan, on the way.
If you happen to be waiting around in Aswan, Egypt, for your visa to Sudan, don’t worry – there are plenty of things to do in Aswan.