Okay, you wouldn’t go to Target and argue over the price of a feather duster with the cashier would you? But, this is how a whole lot of com...

While I was working in the Cairo American College, my son was volunteering at a Sudanese refugee school in the city. He read to students and...

Our final stop on our tour of Egyptian ruins is the funereal temple of Hatshepsut. Also on the west bank of the Nile over the Theban Hills o...

If ya don’t want your afterworldly possessions burglarized it might be a good idea not to store them in a triangle that’s almost five hundre...

And they poked all their eyes out… Our last visit on the east bank of the Nile is the Luxor temple. So far all the temples we have trekked t...

We cue up to pass through a drawbridge immediately preceding the lock at Esna. Two cruise ships can fit into the thing at a time and it seem...

Rumor has it that there is a tourist bazaar in Esna. We never found it. What we did find was our "I don't think we're in Kansas...

The ancient Egyptian calendar was divided into three seasons - planting, harvest and flood. The yearly flood of the Nile sent everyone inla...

Shot through our cabin window somewhere between Aswan and Esna.

Our boat leaves moorage in Aswan and we motor with the current up the Nile toward the city and temple of Kom Ombo. This temple, relatively ...