Egypt, in practice
Guides to the questions guests ask us before they book: when to go, what things cost, which tombs are worth your ticket, and whether a small sailing boat really beats a cruise ship. Written by the people who run the trips.
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Hurghada to Luxor: Distance, Drive Time and How to Plan It
About 290 km, four to five hours each way. What a private day in Luxor looks like and when a night there makes sense.
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2027 Total Solar Eclipse: What to Expect and How to Protect Your Eyes
Total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027: what happens, eye safety to ISO 12312-2 and how to behave, with sources from NASA, the AAS and eye specialists.
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Total Solar Eclipse 2027 in Luxor, Egypt: Nile Trip from Aswan
Total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027 in Luxor: just over six minutes of totality. Nile trip from Aswan with flights and a Red Sea beach stay. Price on request.
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Food in Egypt: Everyday Meals and the 5 Most Traditional Dishes
Lunch is the main meal, tea is always strong and sweet, and five dishes turn up again and again: koshari, batates bel lahma, molokhia, ta’meya and mahshi.
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Is a day trip from Hurghada to Cairo worth it?
About 450 km and just under five hours each way. What the day really costs you, what you see, who should not do it, and the alternative almost nobody is offered.
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Cumin in Ancient Egypt: From a Pharaonic Tomb
Cumin seeds from the tomb of Kha, remedies in the Ebers Papyrus and spices from Tutankhamun’s tomb: an Egyptologist on the evidence for cumin in ancient Egypt, and where you can smell it today.
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Molokhia: The Green Soup a Caliph Once Banned
In 1004 the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim banned molokhia; a thousand years later, it is still on the stove in every Egyptian family. Here is its story, how it is made, and where you can taste it.
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Ful Medames: Egypt’s Breakfast of the Pharaohs
Ful medames is probably the oldest breakfast dish in the world to have been made without interruption. What archaeology actually tells us, how ful is cooked today and where to try it in Egypt.
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Dahabeya Nile Cruise: The Slow Way Along the Nile
No loudspeakers, no crowds, just the creak of a wooden hull and the Nile at dawn. Here is what slow travel on a dahabeya between Luxor and Aswan is really like.
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Luxor: East Bank or West Bank? What Makes Sense When
West Bank in the morning, East Bank in the late afternoon. Why that order matters, how to split one, two or three days, and what you can leave out.