Travel The Middle East

TweetThis post about Couchsurfing in Haifa is a perfect example of the kindness I often encounter when traveling the Middle East. Perhaps surprisingly to the typical citizen of the West, but all I have to tell you is that the media has one side and it is usually the wrong one! Share your travel tale [...]

TweetAhhh, Dahab…my beautiful beautiful Dahab. To me, it is one of those places you can’t quite explain how you fell in love with it, yet you also do know why–and very, very well. As with every great love, you can’t explain why you love it so much despite its (perhaps many) flaws. Basically, your feelings [...]

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 [...]

TweetClimbing the Petra Monastery is one of the most vivid adventures of my 2009 solo female Middle East road trip, which took me through 3 different countries in 5 weeks. Also read: The Treasury, Petra: A tear-jerking Kodak moment I climbed the Petra Monastery on my second day hiking there with a Bedouin and some travelers [...]

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 [...]

TweetWhile my 3 visits to the Pyramids of Giza were sandstorms of disappointments, my experience at Petra actually surpassed my expectations: It was magical, sublime. As I first thought of it, “a perfect Kodak moment” Prior to my visit in June 2009, Petra had only been in my bucket list for about a year or [...]

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, [...]