Dahab, Egypt

We arrived in Dahab in the evening after a quick flight from Hurghada to Sharm El-Sheikh. We haggled with the taxi guys in the airport parking lot but decided to walk outside the airport area to the main road for a better deal. We found a taxi to take us the 100 km for 500 […]

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Hurghada and Luxor, Egypt

We thought we would take the ferry from Sharm El-Sheikh to Hurghada but once in Sharm we found out the ferry no longer ran. I was not about to take the 8+ hour bus ride back to Cairo then a 10 hour train to Luxor so we decided to fly on Egyptair the 30 mins […]

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Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

After 8+ hours on the Go-Bus and multiple check stops (including two military stops having to take bags off the bus for searching) we made it to Sharm El-Sheikh. The girls pretty much slept the entire time again. We grabbed a cab for 100 LE, which was way too much for where he took us, […]

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Giza, Egypt

We found a hotel right outside the front gates of the pyramids called Mena Inn Pyramids where we stayed for three nights. It had everything we needed and the courteous staff even upgraded us to a room with pyramid view for no extra charge. A traditional Egyptian breakfast was served free of charge to the […]

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16 hours of flying in 39 hours with 7 month olds

Well we made it… kelowna – Vancouver – Westjet Vancouver – Toronto, with an overnight – Westjet Toronto – Cairo 9.5 hour direct flight – Egyptair The flights all went without a hitch after spending about an hour sitting on the runway as the storm was rolling in waiting in the huge lineup to be […]

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Take 2 of packing….

Here we go again….  Time to repack the backpacks after a slight medical setback. Just under a week till we fly and I figured it was time to get organized again.  So everything came out of the packs and we regrouped and got repacking. Our list of everything we think we will or might need […]

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