#Tour Operators in Egypt

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Discover Egypt with Pyramidstrip: Your Trusted Tour Operator for Authentic Experiences

Egypt, with its ancient monuments, vibrant culture, and timeless landscapes, has always been a dream destination for travelers seeking history, adventure, and unforgettable experiences. But navigating Egypt’s rich history and diverse terrain can be overwhelming without the right guidance. That’s where Pyramidstrip, a trusted tour operator, steps in to provide you with an experience like no other.

A Reliable Partner for Your Egyptian Adventure

When it comes to planning a trip to Egypt, ensuring your comfort, safety, and enjoyment is paramount. Pyramidstrip stands out as a reliable tour operator dedicated to offering tailored, hassle-free, and authentic local tours. From the majestic Pyramids of Giza to the sun-kissed temples of Luxor, Pyramidstrip promises to take you on a journey that immerses you in Egypt’s ancient wonders while providing the modern comfort and care you deserve.

The Pyramidstrip Promise: Authenticity Meets Comfort

What sets Pyramidstrip apart is their unwavering commitment to authenticity and comfort. The team goes above and beyond to design personalized itineraries that cater to all types of travelers, whether you’re a history enthusiast, an adventure seeker, or someone just looking to relax and enjoy Egypt's vibrant atmosphere. Here’s what makes Pyramidstrip the go-to tour operator in Egypt:

Expert Guides with In-Depth Knowledge: Pyramidstrip employs professional, knowledgeable, and passionate local guides who will share captivating stories and insights about Egypt's history and culture. Their deep understanding of the ancient world ensures that your experience is rich with fascinating details and engaging narratives that bring the past to life.

Customizable Itineraries: Whether you’re visiting the Great Pyramids, cruising along the Nile, or exploring the temples of Abu Simbel, Pyramidstrip crafts bespoke itineraries that allow you to experience Egypt at your own pace. From private tours to group excursions, every journey is designed to meet your unique preferences.

Comfortable and Safe Travel: Your comfort and safety are Pyramidstrip’s top priority. With luxury transportation options and carefully selected accommodations, your journey will be smooth and stress-free. From the moment you land to the time you depart, every aspect of your trip is handled with the utmost attention to detail.

Genuine Local Experiences: Pyramidstrip believes in connecting travelers with Egypt’s rich culture. Beyond the famous landmarks, you’ll have the opportunity to explore hidden gems, sample local cuisine, and interact with locals, allowing you to truly embrace the spirit of Egypt.

Transparent and Trustworthy: As a trusted tour operator, Pyramidstrip values transparency. The company is upfront about all costs, ensuring no hidden fees or surprises along the way. This honesty builds a strong sense of trust with travelers, making Pyramidstrip a reliable partner for your Egyptian adventure.

Why Choose Pyramidstrip?

Unmatched Knowledge: Pyramidstrip’s expert guides and well-curated itineraries ensure you don’t miss out on any of Egypt's treasures while providing a deeper understanding of the history and significance of the sites you visit.

Stress-Free Planning: Travel planning can be overwhelming, but Pyramidstrip makes it easy. With everything from airport transfers to hotel bookings taken care of, all you need to do is show up and enjoy your trip.

Unforgettable Memories: The tours provided by Pyramidstrip create memories that will last a lifetime. Whether it’s watching the sun set over the Valley of the Kings or sailing on a traditional felucca boat along the Nile, every moment is crafted to be unforgettable.

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Top 5 Off-Beat International Tours to Explore in 2025

Discover the top 5 off-beat international tours to explore in 2025! Uncover hidden gems, unique experiences, and unforgettable adventures perfect for the avid traveler.

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Disability in Non-Fiction #1: Plain Text Edition

A plain text version of this post. Here you will find detailed image descriptions and easier-to-read versions of each book summary. If you think that any image descriptions/summaries need to be updated, please let me know!

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‘How to Live Free in a Dangerous World’- Lawson, Shayla

[ID: A book cover. The background is a pale orange colour. In the centre, a large photograph of a person with brown skin standing in front a desert under a blue sky. They have short braided brown hair swept over their left eye, and have their arms crossed over their chest, with one hand resting on the side of their face. The title “How to Live Free in a Dangerous World” is around them in large orange writing that covers the length of the photo. The subtitle “A Decolonial Memoir” is to the right their head in very small white writing. The author’s name “Shayla Lawson” is below the title, at the bottom of the photograph, in smaller yellow writing. Black text at the bottom of the cover reads, under the author’s name, reads “author of ‘this is major’, a national book critics circle award finalist”. /end]

Summary:

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.

With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.

Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year’s Eve in Mexico City, Lawson’s travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal.

Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotions—to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.

‘Being Seen’- Sjunneson, Elsa

[ID: A book cover. It is a dark black with faint, grey, writing over it. The writing, from top to bottom, reads: “Elsa Sjunneson” “Being Seen” “One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism” All in capitals. The “I” in “Being Seen” is designed to look like an opening of sorts, with a ray of light coming through. /end]

Summary:

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be.

As a media studies professor, she’s also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.

‘Disability Pride’- Mattlin, Ben

[ID: A book cover. The background is made of simple, colourful red, cream, white, yellow and teal shapes. Large text reads, from top to bottom: “Disability Pride” in large, black capitals, “Dispatches from a Post-ADA World”in smaller, black capitals, “Ben Mattlin”, in slightly bigger red capitals. /end]

Summary:

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture—from social media to high fashion, Hollywood to Broadway—showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change.

He also explores the movement’s shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care, the right-to-die movement, institutionalization, and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play.

Beautifully written, without anger or pity, Disability Pride is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems different.

‘Crip Kinship’- Kafai, Shayda

[ID: A book cover. The background is light blue, with colourful pictures of butterflies, flowers and a house setting featured in the centre. Lower right centre of the image, a black figure in a long sleeved, billowing dress, holding a curved black walking stick in their right hand. Behind them, a drawing of a room with a table, chair, pink wall with a window, and a blank wall with an orange picture. Text on the book cover, from top to bottom, reads: The title “Crip Kinship” in large black font at the top of the image, The subtitle “The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid” in smaller black capitals, in the upper right corner of the image, The authors name “Shayda Kafai” in medium black capitals in the lower right of the image, partially overlapping the figure in the dress. /end]

Summary:

The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice.

In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.

Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.

Grounded in the disability justice framework, Crip Kinship investigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of colour community offers to all our bodyminds. From their focus on crip beauty and sexuality to manifesting digital kinship networks and crip-centric liberated zones, Sins Invalid empowers and moves us toward generating our collective liberation from our bodyminds outward.

‘Sounds Like Home’- Wright, Mary Herring

[ID: A book cover. The background is yellow. A black and white photograph in the centre shows two young black children and a dog in front of a car. The title “Sounds Like Home” is at the tope in large, curvy black writing. The subtitle “Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South” is written in small orange writing, on three black bars on the right side of the cover. The author’s name “Mary Herring Wright” is written in curvy black writing, slightly smaller than the title, at the bottom of the cover. /end]

Summary:

Mary Herring Wright’s memoir adds an important dimension to the current literature in that it is a story by and about an African American deaf child. The author recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her story is unique and historically significant because it provides valuable descriptive information about the faculty and staff of the North Carolina school for Black deaf and blind students from the perspective of a student as well as a student teacher. In addition, this engrossing narrative contains details about the curriculum, which included a week-long Black History celebration where students learned about important Blacks such as Madame Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and George Washington Carver. It also describes the physical facilities as well as the changes in those facilities over the years. In addition, Sounds Like Home occurs over a period of time that covers two major events in American history, the Depression and World War II.

Wright’s account is one of enduring faith, perseverance, and optimism. Her keen observations will serve as a source of inspiration for others who are challenged in their own ways by life’s obstacles.

‘The Right to Maim’- Puar, Jasbir K.

[ID: A book cover. The background is white. A painting stretches from the bottom of the cover to bottom of top quarter. In the upper quarter of the cover, text reads: The author’s name “Jasbir K. Puar” is at the top in black writing. The title “The Right to Maim” is immediately below this in red caps. The subtitle “Debility, Capacity, Disability” is immediately below this in smaller, yellow caps. The painting is immediately below this. The background is a dark cream. It appears to show a humanoid figure climbing a mound. Two other figures appear to be falling off the mound. There are splashes of red paint around the mound and the figure on it. /end]

Summary:

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Puar’s analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability’s interaction with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism and racialized capital.

‘Uncomfortable Labels’- Dale, Laura Kate

[ID: A book cover. The background is a close photograph of some kind of knitted garment, and its label. The garment is blue. The label is in the centre. Text on the label reads: The title “Uncomfortable Labels” in large black caps The subtitle “My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman” in smaller black caps, lower left of this The author’s name “Laura Kate Dale” at the bottom of the label in black writing. A smaller label attached to the bottom has a single, black capitalised “M” written on it. /end]

Summary:

“So while the assumption when I was born was that I was or would grow up to be a neurotypical heterosexual boy, that whole idea didn’t really pan out long term.”

In this candid, first-of-its-kind memoir, Laura Kate Dale recounts what life is like growing up as a gay trans woman on the autism spectrum. From struggling with sensory processing, managing socially demanding situations and learning social cues and feminine presentation, through to coming out as trans during an autistic meltdown, Laura draws on her personal experiences from life prior to transition and diagnosis, and moving on to the years of self-discovery, to give a unique insight into the nuances of sexuality, gender and autism, and how they intersect.

Charting the ups and downs of being autistic and on the LGBT spectrum with searing honesty and humour, this is an empowering, life-affirming read for anyone who’s felt they don’t fit in.

'Brilliant Imperfections'- Clare, Eli

[ID: A book cover. A photograph of stones can be seen. Over it, a dark box stretching from left to right at the top of the image. Text in the box reads: “Brilliant Imperfection”, in large caps. “Brilliant” is in green, “Imperfection is in white. “Grappling With Cure”, in small, green caps. “Eli Clare”, in white caps. /end]

Summary:

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed.

Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds.

The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams. At each turn, Clare weaves race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender together, insisting on the nonnegotiable value of body-mind difference. Into this mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure.

Ultimately Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time.

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A short list of 8 non-fiction books featuring and/or discussing disability!

I don't highlight the non-fiction section of the archive enough, so I think this is a perfect opportunity.

A plain text version of this post exists here, featuring more detailed image descriptions of each book cover and easier-to-read versions of every summary.

Books on this list:

‘How to Live Free in a Dangerous World’- Lawson, Shayla

‘Being Seen’- Sjunneson, Elsa

‘Disability Pride’- Mattlin, Ben

‘Crip Kinship’- Kafai, Shayda

‘Sounds Like Home’- Wright, Mary Herring

‘The Right to Maim’- Puar, Jasbir K.

‘Uncomfortable Labels’- Dale, Laura Kate

'Brilliant Imperfections'- Clare, Eli

All of these books and more can be found on the Disability Book Archive.

Happy Disability Pride Month!

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Inspired by @professorcalculusstanaccount's timeline posts, it's Roberto Rastapopoulos through the years! No little Greek boy don't grow up to be a massive shithead--

Rasta is a very difficult character to understand in canon, because so much of his lore is left unknown to the viewer. However, there were little bits and pieces, some in Herge's tertiary studio notes; over time I've wrung some water from that stone, and put together this timeline in my head. I went with a more condensed range than ProfCal (i.e. pre-canon up to canon, rather than into post-canon), since Rob does technically "die"/disappear by the end of the (finished) comics.

Headcanons and details under the cut:

According to speculative official notes, he was born in the 1890s in Leros. It's a beautiful island but also one with a turbulent history, as when little Roberto was born, that part of Greece was under control by the Ottoman Empire. His father was a sponge diver, which was a very viable career at the time. (Decades later, the industry would be ruined when the area's sea sponges were over-harvested by bigger diving operations.) His mother is basically unknown...many official outlets say Rastapopoulos is part American, so I imagine his mother was of Greek-American heritage who either met his father abroad or in America.

There were two real-world figures who influenced my timeline: Aristote Onassis and Aleister Crowley. Onassis was one of Herge's later inspirations when writing Rastapopoulos, and for good reason; much like Rastapopoulos's own immoral dealings, Onassis indiscriminately sold warships during WWII and can easily be considered an arms dealer who profited off of human atrocities. On the other hand, Aleister Crowley was my own connection. All the pseudo-Egyptian mysticism in Cigars of the Pharaoh and the Kih-Oskh Brotherhood seems to be a reference to the very real trend in the early 20th Century where the upper crust of western society became fascinated with esoteric beliefs. (Seances and the Ouija Board were also created during this era.) Crowley rose in infamy during this time, too, as a spoiled debutante who spent his inheritance on journeys through the MENA region to perform rituals and "adapt" Eastern religions for his own belief system. With Rastapopoulos making up an entire pharaoh and emblem for his secret trafficking club, it reminded me very much of Crowley's own endeavours, and the commodification of MENA cultures and iconography during this era.

Child (1897) - Canonically, he has three brothers and two sisters, so l envisioned him as the middle child amidst all that. Little Roberto was spoiled when he was little, but when his youngest brother was born, it left Roberto feeling like the attention had been stolen from him.

15 (1906)- The other siblings hoped Roberto would be just as enthusiastic as they were about the family diving business, but alas, he'd always been more interested in reading prose and classical plays. His favourite play is Gounod's Faust. Some days, he daydreams about what a deal with the devil could get him, thinking he'd be able to outsmart the devil and win his riches for free. Roberto was at a rebellious point in his life, and sadly, he'd come to be ashamed of his background, deciding sponge diving was "peasant work" and that he'd rather tell others he was British or American. Eventually, it became easier for the whole family to just send him to a boarding school. Deep down, Roberto's parents hoped he might become an actor, a writer, or some sort of scholar...but the night before he left, Roberto secretly took down his whole family's banking information.

20s (1910s) - Roberto is now in his "Aleister Crowley's world tour" phase. He throws around mysteriously large quantities of money, often putting it into investments, and taking many journeys through Egypt and India. (I also like to imagine he met the Fakir and Colonel Fuad around this time; maybe Zloty too). Rastapopoulos is an insufferable, preening dandy at this time, trying to carve out his own place among the societal elite. His Greek identity is only flaunted as a way to make him seem more "exotic" to strangers. He tries not to think about the bank accounts he's leeching from.

30s (1920s) - Several of his investments actually flourished. His shares in Arab-Air and Flor Fina yield enough profit to let him buy out the companies, and his decadence only increases as he reaps even more profits. With extra money going around, Rastapopoulos finally decides to foray into the movie industry...as a movie producer. His passion for theatre never died, and if he can't become an actor himself, then why not produce the kinds of stories he wanted to be in? By the time the Great Depression hits, Rastapopoulos has amassed more than enough wealth to stay afloat...and the drug ring he's started with a few good friends sure helps, too. He's more concerned with holding onto every millimetre of his receding hairline.

40s (canon) - By all means, Rastapopoulos could have disbanded the cartel and retired comfortably. Maybe he could have invested more in his own movies, and focused more on Cosmos Pictures's internal operations. And yet, he didn't. Bigger numbers are better, so Rastapopoulos kept amassing his dirty money, thinking he was too big to fall. He got messy and left behind some viable clues, which some Belgian kid happened to stumble across...

50s (1940s-early 50s)- "Roberto Rastapopoulos" may be out on bail and facing decades in prison, but "Marquis Dante di Gorgonzola" is just some mysterious financier with an offshore bank account. Some of the other societal elites recognize him, but they find the alter ego funny and play along; "Oh, here comes "the marquis"...! He's due back in Hong Kong!" He can't make money through drug trafficking anymore, he can't show his face in Hollywood, and he certainly can't go back to Greece. Unfortunately, some of his associates introduce him to a different kind of trafficking, one even more immoral, but just as lucrative... It's the climax of the Rastapopoulos family tragedy: the son of hard-working commoners has ground his family's name into dust thanks to his pursuit of power and decadence; he has now resorted to deceiving those same sorts of commoners, dooming them to unknown fates just so he can buy a boat. Later, he begins resorting to harebrained schemes and petty crime just to maintain that lifestyle. His Greek identity has long been buried in favour of a vague, exotic cultural identity meant to explain away his quirks and twitchiness.

I've long been torn on whether or not Endaddine Akass is Rastapopoulos's final form. Herge's notes do consider him surviving Flight 714 to Sydney by waking up in the tropics with some degree of amnesia...perhaps this is near Jamaica, where he'll meet Ramo Nash under a new identity. It also feels the most theatrical - Rastapopoulos is playing yet another role, and he has a grand finale planned for Tintin's murder. Additionally, the mysticism Akass totes in Alph-Art is inspired by the alternative religion fads of the 1960s-70s; Akass is evocative of some of those many cult leaders, like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Father Yod.

And yet, I almost find it more fitting for Rastapopoulos to survive Flight 714 to Sydney with full amnesia. He only knows himself as some middle-aged vagrant, and he decides he just has to pick himself up, and find some odd jobs to make a living. He gives himself a new name; his family history has been wiped clean. He struggles to make ends meet, much like the family he bankrupted, though he'll never know just how ironic his life has become. The rest of the world knows Rastapopoulos as a bombastic, flashy debutante who died a pitiful death during a police standoff. Tintin feels like he saw him one last time, but it feels like a bad dream he had during a flight layover. The man who always wanted to be the biggest and best died quietly in the sea, his true fate unknown, his body forever missing.

I think that's why I find Rastapopoulos so fascinating as a character! You can either make him into Tintin's greatest scourge who fights to the death to maintain his status, or you can rip all that away and doom him to a humble existence.

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Egypt Tour Package From Vancouver BC

Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Look no further than the incredible Egypt Tour Package from Vancouver BC! This package is designed to whisk you away to the land of pharaohs, pyramids, and ancient wonders.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich history and vibrant culture of Egypt, all while enjoying the convenience and comfort of a carefully curated tour package.

From the moment you step foot in Egypt, you'll be captivated by its beauty and allure. The tour begins with a visit to the iconic Pyramids of Giza, where you'll be able to marvel at these ancient structures that have stood the test of time. Imagine standing in front of the Great Sphinx, feeling the weight of history surround you.

But that's not all - your adventure continues with a cruise along the majestic Nile River. As you sail through the calm waters, you'll witness breathtaking landscapes and visit historic sites such as Luxor and Aswan.

Explore the Valley of the Kings, where pharaohs were laid to rest in elaborate tombs filled with treasures. Marvel at the stunning temples of Karnak and Philae, adorned with intricate carvings and hieroglyphics.

Your tour package also includes a visit to the bustling capital city of Cairo, where you can explore the vibrant markets, sample delicious Egyptian cuisine, and even visit the world-renowned Egyptian Museum.

Get lost in the maze-like streets of Old Cairo, and soak up the atmosphere of this ancient city.

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Rise in Tourism in Egypt

In 2023, nearly 1.5 million Russians visited Egypt, with only Germany sending more tourists. In the first half of 2024, Egypt’s tourism sector saw a 5% revenue increase, reaching $6.6 billion compared to $6.3 billion in the same period in 2023. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported that Egypt welcomed 7.069 million tourists from January to June 2024, a slight 0.1% increase from the previous year's 7.062 million tourists. This growth includes various Egypt tours, highlighting the appeal of the country's diverse offerings.

Tourism revenues in Egypt have grown by 18% since 2010, reaching $5.6 billion that year. The rise in tourist arrivals also increased the number of nights tourists spent in Egypt, totaling 70.2 million in the first half of 2024, up from 67.6 million in 2023 and 65.7 million in 2010. Many visitors enjoy Egypt day tours, contributing to the extended stays.

A Boost from Russia

Egypt continues to attract Russian tourists, with the tourism ministry focusing on this key market. The Russia-Ukraine war initially impacted tourism, but Russian visitors to Egypt have since surged. Last year, 1.4 million Russians visited Egypt, a 40% increase from 2022. Egypt aims to attract 1.8 million Russian tourists this year, with 258,600 visiting between January and March, many of whom opt for Egypt tour packages.

Egypt is working with Russian travel agencies to boost tourism, especially to popular north-coast resorts along the Mediterranean. Amr el-Kady, CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Authority, held meetings with Russian tour operators to discuss strategies for promoting Egypt luxury tours and Egypt shore excursions. The goal is to enhance promotional efforts for Egyptian destinations in the Russian market.

Tour operators play a crucial role in Egypt’s tourism sector, bringing in 80% of tourists from European markets. The tourism sector, contributing about 12% to Egypt’s GDP, faced challenges from COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, leading to a drop in visitor numbers. In response, Egypt aims to double foreign visitors to 30 million by 2028 and boost private investment in tourism. The country plans to develop 250,000 hotel rooms and generate at least $30 billion in annual revenue, adding 25,000 new hotel rooms this year to accommodate more Egypt tours and attract a diverse range of tourists.

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Egypt Easter Tours & Holidays 2024/2025

Egypt is a fascinating destination with a rich history and cultural heritage, making it an excellent choice for Easter tours and holidays. While I can't provide specific information about tours and holidays for the year 2024/2025 since my knowledge is based on information up until September 2021, I can give you a general overview of what you can expect when planning an Easter trip to Egypt.

Cairo: Start your journey in the capital city, Cairo, which is home to iconic landmarks such as the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Egyptian Museum. Explore the ancient wonders of the pyramids, learn about the pharaohs, and immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of this bustling metropolis.

Luxor: Travel south to Luxor, often referred to as the world's greatest open-air museum. Luxor is famous for its temples and ancient sites, including the Karnak Temple Complex and the Valley of the Kings. Take a cruise along the Nile River and witness the breathtaking beauty of the temples and tombs that line its banks.

Aswan: Continue your journey to Aswan, another enchanting city located on the Nile River. Visit the majestic Aswan High Dam, explore the Philae Temple, and take a boat ride to the picturesque Temple of Kom Ombo. Aswan is also a gateway to the stunning Abu Simbel temples, which are a must-see if you have the time.

Nile River Cruises: Consider embarking on a Nile River cruise, which is a popular way to explore Egypt's ancient treasures while enjoying the comfort of a luxury cruise ship. Cruises typically range from a few days to a week, allowing you to visit multiple sites along the Nile and experience the beauty of the river.

Red Sea Resorts: If you're looking to relax and enjoy some beach time during your Easter holiday, Egypt's Red Sea resorts offer stunning beaches and world-class diving and snorkeling opportunities. Destinations such as Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh are known for their pristine waters, coral reefs, and vibrant marine life.

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A couple weeks ago, we highlighted Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to drive around the world. She was not, though, the first woman to circle the globe by motor car. That honor belongs to Adventuress Harriet White Fisher. She just wasn’t behind the wheel.

By the time of her journey, Mrs. Fisher was already a prominent person in American industry. She took over the operation of the Eagle Steel Works upon the death of her husband in 1903. To win the trust and support of her workers, she learned the business from the ground up, everything from working the forge to bidding on contracts. She secured the contract to provide the machinery to build the Panama Canal, among others, and was at the time the only woman member of the National Association of Manufacturers.

On July 19, 1909, Fisher and her travelling party set off in a Locomobile “without any special equipment.” The trek that would take them through England, Italy, Egypt, India, Japan, and points in between before finally arriving back in Tarrytown, New York on August 16, 1910. She’d detail her adventures in her book, “A Woman’s World Tour In A Motor.”

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Thursday 2nd May 2024

Our Rovos train seemed very active overnight in the starting and stopping department. Not sure what it was up to, but we rose at 7am, had breakfast and shortly afterwards slid quietly into the Rovos station in Pretoria. Rather charmingly there was a string quartet lacking two of the members but playing palm court music. Soft drinks were issued and we were encouraged into a very comfortable lounge in the colonial style. We were to be met by our transit supplier to our hotel for the night, but before that was to happen Rovos had arranged a tour of their facilities and workshops. They have a very slick operation here with something approaching 300 restored carriages, seven steam locos and several diesel locos, some having been rescued from the scrap heap. The company has grown in the 35 years of it's existence, occasionally almost hitting the buffers but now highly successful with new routes opening all the time; even one planned across Africa to Egypt. Their attention to detail, style and quality is impressive. All this started because one man Rohan Vos thought he'd like three carriages to work like a caravan to take his family on holiday.

Pretoria , or its new name Tshwane, is the administrative capital of South Africa. (not sure I knew that). Anyway, we went first to the Pretoria Art Museum which was conveniently not too far from our hotel. It was an eclectic mix of recent African art and Dutch stuff, but unfortunately not the good bits. Well it all must be quite highly regarded because just as we arrived, so did most of the local school kids. Well it was interesting. Being this far inland there was no chance of there being a lighthouse, but undaunted we made our way to the Union Buildings which is where the President lives and is the location for the South African Government. In the foreground to the buildings is a nine metre high statue of Nelson Mandela, eight metres finger tip to finger tip and 3.5 tonnes. It was unveiled on the Day of Reconciliation, 16 December 2013 just eleven days after Mandela died. It certainly is a striking memorial and is in a stunning position in front of the government building. Pretoria is a nicer, more pleasing city perhaps than we might have imagined and we shall have a little time in the morning to explore some more before trudging off to the airport.

ps Great braai in the hotel restaurant tonight.

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Boeing 767-300 Azur Air

Registration: RA-73078 Type: 767-3Q8ER Engines: 2 × PW PW4060 Serial Number: 24745 First flight: Feb 14, 1991

Azur Air is a large Russian charter airline operating flights from forty Russian cities to 29 international tourist route. The airline is a strategic partner of the tour operator Anex Tour. Azur The airline started operations in 1995 under the Katekavia brand and operated regional flights from Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport and Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport. On December 17, 2014, the airline operated its first flight to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. In 2015, Katekavia rebranded as a travel carrier and was renamed Azur Air. By the end of the year, the company already had 14 aircraft, and its fleet consisted of Boeing 767-300 and Boeing 757-200 aircraft. Currently, it mainly serves tourist destinations, offering business class charters.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

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Some 1.8 million Muslims from across the world made it to Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to mark the most important day of the Hajj. But due to global price rises, the pilgrimage is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

"The number of bookings has significantly dropped this year. It's too costly for many people," says an employee at a private Egyptian tour operator in charge of organising Hajj trips, who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear of a backlash over their criticism of their country's economic situation.

In Egypt, the most populous Arab country, the cheapest government-sponsored pilgrimage currently costs around $6,000 (£4,720) - double what it was last year.

The price hike has been fuelled by the sharp devaluation of the Egyptian pound, which has lost more than 50% of its value against the US dollar since March 2022. As a result, the cost of living has also skyrocketed, with annual core inflation hitting 40% in May.

About 30% of the population was living below the government's poverty line before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the World Bank says the figure is likely to have risen since then.

'My dream'

Farida, a retired Egyptian civil servant, saved to go on the Hajj for five years.

"All my savings are not enough to pay for the trip. When I saw the price list, I was shocked," she says.

Farida - not her real name - is a widow and mother of five. She also asked not to be identified because she did not want to publicly criticise Egyptian authorities over the rising cost of living.

Farida says that performing the Hajj is "my dream", adding: "Hajj cleanses the soul."

She says her children are all married, so "social and financial responsibilities have been lifted off my shoulders". "It is about time to go to Hajj."

Farida has already been to Mecca four times before to perform the lesser Umrah pilgrimage, which includes some of the rituals of the Hajj and can be undertaken at any time of the year.

This time, she used a loophole in the system so that she could perform the Hajj.

"Instead of the Hajj visa, I got a three-month-tourist visa and arrived in Mecca a month before the Hajj season kicks off," she tells me from Saudi Arabia while waiting to start the pilgrimage. "This is the only option I have got."

Farida's whole trip to Mecca works out 80% cheaper than the government-sponsored Hajj package.

Subsidy cuts

Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims are required to make the journey to Mecca at least once in their lifetime, if they are physically and financially capable of doing so.

The pilgrimage starts on the eighth day of the Islamic lunar month of Dhul Hijjah, which this year corresponded to 26 June in the Gregorian calendar, and lasts five to six says.

The Hajj usually attracts between 1.5 million and 2 million pilgrims, but this is the first time since the pandemic that Saudi authorities have allowed it to return to full capacity.

Saudi Arabia allocates each country an annual quota based on the number of Muslims living there.

The biggest goes to Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, with a population of 270 million. It was given 221,000 places this year.

Indonesian authorities decided this year to cut the subsidy for the pilgrimage to 50% from 60%, meaning that each Indonesian pilgrim had to pay $3,320. In 2022, the package cost $2,660.

Political barriers

While the financial cost can prove an obstacle for many Muslims around the world, for those in Yemen - Saudi Arabia's war-torn and impoverished southern neighbour - the situation is far more complicated.

The country has been devastated by a conflict that escalated in 2015, when a Saudi-led military coalition intervened after the Iran-backed rebel Houthi movement seized control of large parts of the country. The fighting has reportedly killed more than 150,000 people and caused one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

This month, Yemeni pilgrims flew directly from the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj - the first such commercial flights in about seven years.

Those who travelled had to pay about $3,000 - a considerable sum in a country where more than 21 million out of a population of 30 million people need some kind of humanitarian assistance and 17 million do not know where their next meal will come from.

"In 2016, I went to Hajj for less than half of this price. It's too expensive for me now," one Yemeni journalist says.

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China, Egypt discuss ways to boost tourism

Tuesday in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, a workshop between Chinese and Egyptian travel agencies and tour operators was conducted to talk about methods to boost travel between the two nations.

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