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 Amazing discoveries in land of pharaohsSven Hansen, 27, of Kelowna, is on a backpacking trip that is taking him through Europe and Africa. Here is his latest report:
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 Wonders of Abu Simbel to camping in SaharaSven Hansen, 27, of Kelowna, concludes his packing trip that took him through Europe and Africa. Here is his final report:
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 Turning the Red Sea greenThe scene by the swimming pool in Hurghada, on Egypt's Red Sea coast, was a study in cultural contrasts. At one end of the pool was a group of Russian tourists - skinny young women sporting tiny bikinis that would make even a Brazilian blush. At the other, a cluster of Egyptian mothers, shrouded from head to toe.
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 48 hours in DamascusThe ancient capital of Syria, in the words of Syrian film director Nabil al-Maleh, is one of the last cities on the planet where most problems are solved with a smile. Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most from a short stay in a city of culture, conquest and intrigue.
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 Arabian knights come to the rescueIf camels could laugh, these big lumpy giants of the desert would be in hysterics. Long necks craned over their pen; eyes following the action. We could sense the disdain. What should have been a quiet, early afternoon in the middle of almost nowhere, is anything but quiet. A black beast with engine gunning, wheels spinning, sand flying, is creating a scene. A sandstorm, in fact. People conversing, (maybe cursing). All, apparently, for naught. And then, more of the same. At every attempt to get traction, our big, black 4x4 Ford Explorer sinks deeper into the hot desert sand.
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 Beaches, safaris, ski hills worth a stopover in surreal DubaiDubai is a hot destination -- literally. The temperature can rise to 40 C in the summer, but with modern technology, major shopping bargains and cooler evenings, Dubai has made the desert bearable.
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 Opening to tourism, Syria flaunts hidden treasuresWhile tourists have long travelled to see Egypt's pyramids, tense ties with the West made Syria a no-go zone for decades, but that may be changing.
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 Exploring Tel Aviv's vibrant club lifeEveryone told me to be careful when I said I was going to Israel. How did they know I would have so much trouble staying sober?
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 Israel is more than religious pilgrimagesWhen you think of visiting Israel, you think more of pilgrimages to the Wailing Wall and Mount Sinai than boutique hotels and off-road motorcycle racing. But with the country, now 60 years old, breaking tourism records and shattering the stained-glass ceiling of religious pilgrimage, it is attracting pleasure seekers from all over the world.
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 Cruising the royal route of the pharaohsAs our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast sands of the Sahara.
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 Modernity meets monasticism in Egypt's desertA speck of green in a sea of sand, St. Anthony's Monastery in Egypt welcomes those seeking God in silence broken only by the whisper of the wind.
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 48 hours in Oman's Musandam peninsulaOman's northern enclave of Musandam, with its rocky fjords and colorful coral reefs, is a regular getaway for city dwellers from the Gulf and beyond. Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help you make the most of an area often dubbed the Norway of the Gulf.
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 Yemen's natural wondersEvolution has run riot on Yemen's windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same.
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 Oman sees tourism future in golf as well as sunshineIt may have year-round sunshine, sandy beaches, cliff-top forts and desert dunes, but Oman is hoping golf will help it lure more tourists as it tries to wean its economy off oil exports.
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 48 hours in JerusalemHoly ground to three world religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- Jerusalem has been fought over for more than 3,000 years. Yet to visitors the city seems peaceful and welcoming.
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 Dubai offers luxury spas of world-class standingDubai is hotter than a hot-stone massage. And, we're not just talking temperatures. While climes hover in the vicinity of the mid to upper 30s, what makes this booming destination really sizzle is the incredible number of new real estate developments, from luxury hotels and gleaming megamalls to theme parks.
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 Morocco offers a surreal mix of old and newIn alleyways barely as wide as my outstretched arms, the city's bustle pushes past me in waves -- giggling schoolchildren chasing each other, veiled women on their way to market, wizened old men in traditional djellabas walking hand-in-hand, Moroccan style, and chatting.
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 Rock of ages: Petra stands near-eternalHistory doesn't record when the earthquake that created the narrow passageway known as the Siq hit the arid, mountainous interior of what's now the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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 Israel wondrous to explore if you can tolerate tight securityThe young soldier entered Montifiore, walked to the table where his wife and 20-something friends were already deep in conversation, picked up his newborn baby and gently cradled the child in arms which moments before held his M-16. The weapon now on the nearby floor.
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 Into the heart of MeccaAfter 10 years of conflicting schedules, it was finally meant to be. Between school, work and travel commitments, we were contending with the fact that the annual pilgrimage can only be performed during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the month of hajj.
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 Egypt's Alexandria seeks second revivalAlexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites.
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 Leapfrogging around Cairo's urban quagmireIt may be that 16 million inhabitants, tens of thousands of tourists and an aging infrastructure don't always make for a perfect mix.
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 Author heads to Egypt to find riches in the sandRobert Twigger has had his share of adventures. His latest travel odyssey - or should that be odd-yssey - is a search for a fabled desert oasis in the middle of the Sahara. Once again, Twigger is following famous footsteps. Viewers of the movie The English Patient and readers of the book of the same name will recall Count Laszlo de Almasy, played by Ralph Fiennes. In real life, Almasy was a Hungarian fascist and a renowned desert explorer in Egypt and Sudan. He later became the first director of the Cairo Desert Institute.
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 Arabian OdysseyThe heat-blasted lands of the Arabian Peninsula must have been a shock for a fair-skinned blue-eyed lad from the perpetually overcast British Isles. Even for a man like T.E. Lawrence who, as a child, studied the lives and ideals of the Crusaders who invaded Arabia, and went to Syria in 1909 to research his Oxford thesis, somewhat wordily titled "The influence of the Crusades on European military architecture to the end of the 12th century." And yet something in the desert called to the man who would become known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia.
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