Travel The Middle East

TweetHello ladies and gentlemen! Through a photo essay, I will show you how to dress in the Middle East (or any conservative country) and (almost) pass as a local. Overview Let me be clear: How to dress in the Middle East doesn’t really matter–if you don’t care about the attention. Except for a handful of [...]

TweetMany think the waters of the Nile river are toxic and can’t even be touched. While that may be true of certain parts of it, especially around Cairo, this is not the case in Upper Egypt. As a I drifted through the longest river in the world for 4 days and 3 nights, I discovered [...]

TweetToday it is all about reminiscing: I’ll be posting never-published-before content from my personal journal, which I carried while living in Egypt from 2008-2009. The following entry, dated April 26th 2009, perfectly portrays what, at the time, was a love-hate relationship with the Middle Eastern country of Egypt. Granted, now I look back and figured [...]

TweetDisclaimer: I am, in no means, through this Pyramids of Giza post discrediting this masterpiece of the ancient world, as its architecture and history are beyond amazing. This article is simply portraying my opinion and POV of my (3) visits, taking into consideration the high expectations that I had before hand. You should still go, [...]