https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:02:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/sharm-el-sheikh-suez-canal-eg/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:32:37 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=41594 February 22nd, 2022 We had morning flights to “Sharm” and had arranged for our driver from yesterday’s West Bank tour to pick us up at 5:45 am.  The flight was through Cairo so it was two one hour-ish flights to get there shortly after 11; both left more on less on time.  Here in Egypt […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/nile-cruise-and-on-to-luxor-eg/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:38:49 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=41345   February17th, 2022 Thursday morning we had a leisurely morning and breakfast at the guest house.  We were all packed up and took the ferry back to Aswan after checking out.  Abdullah was there waiting for us and for two other couples.  Turned out he was our Egyptologist.  The other couples finally showed and we […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/aswan-eg/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:52:35 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=41351 February 15th, 2022 We were up at 4:30 to catch our early flight to Aswan – took an Uber to the airport and the flight was on time – we’d booked Business Class as economy was full so we got breakfast on the plane..  We took a taxi from the airport in Aswan to the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/weekend-in-the-white-desert-national-park-eg/ Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:54:13 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=40860   February 12th, 2022 The White Desert was first established as a protected area in 2002. It is located 45 km (28 mi) north of the town of Qsar El Farafra. The park is the site of large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. It is also the site of cliffs (at the northern end of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/more-cairo-and-a-little-alexandria-eg/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:12:36 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=40796 February 10th, 2022 Today, Thursday, we had to ourselves in Cairo but first had to check out of our hotel.  Our friend, Josée told us about the Marriot near Giza that she thought looked wonderful, so we booked two nights out there on Doug’s points hoping for a pyramid view.  We left all our bags […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/okay-well-go-to-egypt/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:10:43 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=40658 February 8th, 2022 EGYPT – a really hard country to write a brief history about! Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the […]]]>