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Photo:Summiting Mount Sinai

October 14, 2011 By Danny

Mount Sinai is one of those mythical places, probably because Moses was there, that we don’t even really think of as real.  Guess what, it is real!  I took this shot of Jill and our guide as we were walking up Mount Sinai.

Now YOU come up with a caption for this photo!

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IF YOU GO:  Stay in St. Catherine’s near the mountain and do your hike in the afternoon for sunset.  Most people will stay at their resort on the coast, board a bus a midnight, and hike up by the hundreds in the pre-dawn hours when it’s dark and cold.  We shared out sunset with about a dozen other people and were able to make a very nice day of it…..and with a normal night’s sleep as well!

Filed Under: photos Tagged With: bible, caption, egypt, hiking, sinai

Photo: Attention Danger

July 25, 2011 By Jillian

The biblical Mt. Sinai does exist, and not surprisingly, it is in Egypt.  Clearly we had no choice but to climb the famed mountain.  Popular for sunrise, we chose to watch sunset from the peak, assuming it would be warmer (it was) and less crowded (it was).

Small booths with snacks, water and bathrooms lined the winding path towards the mountain top.  Some even sold souvenirs, although I’m not sure who would want to carry something further up the mountain.  As you near the top you start to see these wonderful little signs along the path, alerting you to the obvious.  This was one of my favorites.

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Mt. Sinai, Egypt, Hiking Sign

IF YOU GO: Mt. Sinai, not surprisingly, is on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.  Although you can take tours, including hiking trips from Dahab or Sharm el Sheik,  it’s a long drive.   We recommend stay in St. Catherine’s, the village closest to Mt. Sinai.  We walked from St. Catherine’s to and from Mt. Sinai.  The village is small and during the day a bit touristy.  At night it’s much more authentically local and we were glad to spend the night there in a Bedouin run hostel.  The arabian peninsula is full of great hiking opportunities, remember it’s the desert and bring plenty of water and food.  There are companies that will take you on hiking holidays to Dubai or Egypt.

Filed Under: photos Tagged With: egypt, hiking, mount sinai, religion

Photo: Kernak Temple

June 24, 2011 By Danny

Touring Luxor is an amazing thing to be able to do. The entire city is an open air museum just covered in artifacts and history. This picture was taken inside the Kernak Temple, one of the largest sites in the city of Luxor (which history remembers as Thebes) and one that could take anywhere from an hour to a decade to explore.

Taking photos in the temple actually wasn’t so easy. The hoards of people were one challenge but the sunlight was the larger challenge. The sun did a good job of whitewashing a lot of detail away and it took a keen idea to spot places with good hieroglyphics, no direct sunlight, and enough daylight to not need a flash or a tripod.

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IF YOU GO: Egypt is a great destination, especially now as many tourists canceling their holidays in Egypt on account of the recent uprisings. Luxor is filled with great places to stay and eat and finding one for you is easy as pie. Take a river cruise from Aswan or the train from Cairo and plan to spend a few days touring and soaking up the history.

Filed Under: photos Tagged With: ancient history, egypt, kernak, luxor, nile

Good Beer, Bad Beer & Ugly Beer

February 16, 2011 By Danny

Some beer is great, actually a lot of it is. So good in fact that we dedicated a Foodie Friday to all the different beers we tried while we were in Europe. Beer helped us to become friends with a few Iranians and we became enthralled in Tanzania where our beer options were Safari, Kilimanjaro, Uhuru and Serengeti. We tried a huge variety of beer on our trip, mostly because we wanted to collect a variety of labels, and here’s our good, bad and ugly.
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The Good

This one is really difficult to put our finger on. While we were in Cologne, Germany our friends there introduced us to Kölsch and explained to us that by law it has to come from that very region. We were there during the world cup, while Germany was making a run for the championship, and on game day we went to buy some and found the warehouse of a beer aisle at the local supermarket completely cleaned out. The beer is refreshing but really, is every bit as good as those wonderful pilsners we tried while we were in Prague….namely the original Budweiser. We didn’t have any trouble finding that in a local Prague bar and the local version of the familiar ‘black and tan’ was quite frankly amazing. Given that we have friends in both cities, I think we’re going to have to call it a tie. (I’m willing to take my chances that our friend in Munich isn’t reading….she might have a slightly different opinion.)

The Bad

TIMGP5001his one goes to Egypt. Many of us have been toasting the changes occurring there recently but the unfortunate truth is that Islamic countries, even secular ones, just don’t understand the concept very well. The local brew was actually OK but it was only memorable in that it was almost impossible to find outside of a tourist restaurant. Wanting to celebrate our completion of the overland Cape Town to Cairo route we struck out again and again. Finally we found a liquor store (we’d been told that the handful in existence were all run by Christians rather than Muslims….I’m not so sure of that) and, giving up on beer, made the switch to liquor. Have you ever heard of Jani Walker Red Lion? I imagine it is pretty similar to motor oil. Runner Up: Every time I go home and visit my parents I’m confronted with a refrigerator filled with Michelob Ultra. How Lance Armstrong, the world’s premier endurance athlete, became associated with a low-carbohydrate beverage is one mystery….how they get away with calling that yellow water beer is another.

The UglyIMGP2775

The recent purchase of Anheuser Busch by InBev has had many Americans upset that our American beer is being stolen by Europeans. Company number two, behind InBev is South African Brewing Co, based in Johannesburg. (In case your curious, familiar names like Miller and Peroni are SAB labels.) While in Jo’Burg we toured the International Beer Museum (which is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon) and were surprised to learn that our tour entitled us to a taste of traditional African beer. Thankfully it was just a taste and we were later given two pints of real beer, plus a small souvenir glass filled with some more.

This column of ishouldlogoff.com aims to answer those questions that we always get asked. What was your favorite this, or your worst that. Every week we aim to highlight a new topic and will do so until we run out of ideas. If you have an idea for a Good-Bad-Ugly post, feel free to tell us in the comment section below or send us an email. To read all of them, click here.

Filed Under: Beer & Wine, Good, Bad & Ugly, Headline, Travel Reflections Tagged With: africa, beer, drinks, egypt, europe, germany, good-bad-ugly, reflections, south_africa

Photo Tuesday: Philae Temple

November 30, 2010 By Jillian

We coughed up some cash to do probably one of the most touristy things in Aswan, Egypt- to see the Philae Temple at night.  Although the laser show was cheesy, the temple was breathtaking.  And to think it should be underwater. The building of the high dam flooded a good portion of lower Egypt to create Lake Nasser.  Several ruins and archaeological sites in Lower Egypt were moved literally piece by piece by UNESCO teams to save them from the fate of Atlantis.  The Island of Philae and Temple of Isis are just one of the nearly forty sites relocated throughout Egypt.  Although it had partially been underwater during high water since the first Aswan dam was built in the early 20th Century, the temple complex is still in amazing condition.

We took this picture of the “holy of holies” in the main Temple of Isis after the rest of the tour had left.

Filed Under: photos Tagged With: egypt, photos, ruins, tours

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