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Category: Africa & Middle East

Travel guides, information, photographs, and stories to help you explore Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa.

three photos of a pyramid, inside a tomb, and a mosque with text "Egypt's UNESCO World Heritage"

UNESCO World Heritage sites in Egypt

Posted onMay 31, 2021May 2, 20226 Comments

You may be familiar with the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Egypt that include the pyramids, temples, and tombs of the ancient pharaohs. But those account for only three of Egypt’s seven World Heritage sites. Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, EgyptTagsUNESCO World Heritage

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An ancient worker’s village: Deir el-Medina in Luxor, Egypt

Posted onMarch 6, 2021December 29, 2021Leave a comment

The craftsmen who built tombs for Egypt’s pharaohs lived near their workplace. Today, visitors to Luxor’s West Bank can see the remains of the Village of the Workers (Deir el-Medina) and the colorful tombs these Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, EgyptTagsUNESCO World Heritage

courtyard with text "Gayer-Anderson Museum Cairo"

At home in the past: The Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Posted onJanuary 26, 2021December 29, 2021Leave a comment

The Gayer-Anderson Museum is a rare example of the Islamic courtyard houses favored by Cairo’s successful merchants, traders, and other men of means during the 16th and 17th centuries. Originally two houses, each with separate Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, Egypt

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Hidden treasure awaits in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Posted onMay 25, 2020December 29, 20216 Comments

At the height of Egypt’s power more than 3,000 years ago, the pharaohs built ornate burial chambers in a desolate valley across the Nile from Luxor. Today a few of their elaborately decorated tombs are Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, EgyptTagsUNESCO World Heritage

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Cruise the Nile for the best of Egypt

Posted onJanuary 6, 2020December 29, 202112 Comments

A Nile cruise is an easy and relaxing way to see the best of Egypt. River cruise ships sail between Luxor and Aswan on short itineraries that include an impressive collection of tombs and temples. Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, EgyptTagssailing and cruising

mothr and baby rhino in Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve

It’s World Rhinoceros Day!

Posted onSeptember 22, 2015December 10, 20202 Comments

Did you know that today is World Rhinoceros Day? First designated in 2010 by the World Wildlife Foundation in South Africa to draw attention to the world’s five species of rhino (two native to Africa Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, South AfricaTagssafari

Happy World Penguin Day!

Posted onApril 25, 2015December 10, 2020Leave a comment

Everyone loves penguins, right? So today is a good day to show your love for these amazing creatures! Why today? Every year on April 25 a colony of Adelie penguins at McMurdo Station in Antarctica Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, South Africa

A Bit of Benin at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Posted onOctober 30, 2014December 10, 2020Leave a comment

Intricately detailed bronzes from Benin allow visitors at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to peek into a very different time and place. Housed together in the intimate Benin Kingdom Gallery, these 15th and Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, Massachusetts, USATagsmuseums

Through the Back Door at the Riad El Yacout, Fès, Morocco

Posted onApril 25, 2014January 24, 20222 Comments

The Riad El Yacout sits outside the medina wall near the gate of Bab Boujeloud. Along the one side the scene is dominated by a large construction site that is becoming a new hotel. This Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, Morocco

The Tannery, Fès, Morocco

Posted onApril 21, 2014December 14, 20202 Comments

Fès has been famous for its fine leatherwork for 1000 years. Even today the medina features locally-made leather items. Most prominent of these may be the gaily-colored babooshes – the pointed toe, open heel shoes Read More …

CategoriesAfrica & Middle East, Morocco

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