Oceanos – Travel Blog

Despite Oceanos sensible advice on how to combat the constant barrage of hawkers, I generally found that many travellers had a very negative view of Egyptians. I must admit that after ten days and only having seen Cairo, Luxor and Aswan I had similar feelings too. The only remedy is to keep very cool. Remember [...]

As of November 4, 2009, six new archaeological tombs will be on display for visitors of Luxor. The archaeological council has lately been clearing the surroundings of several locations in Luxor, in a serious effort to conserve the antiquities of the region. A budget of more than LE300 million was designated for the transfer of [...]

The good news being that the British Foreign office has gone ballistic, and refuses to recognise any kangaroo court judgement. They’ve got a jet on standby in London to fly some legal dudes down and some other cheeses to crush these bastards if they wanna take things all the way. He added, that being British [...]

I don’t really know where to begin, so I’ll start from the relative tranquility of where I left off in Khartoum.
Due to the lack of tourism in Sudan and the Eid al Adha holiday, we were able to stay in a wonderful old colonial building in among the equally lavish foreign embassies that make Khartoum [...]

We have arrived!!! It was a long trip to get here, 18hrs on the plane alone, but actually quite fun. We arrived in Zurich yesterday morning and, jet-lag and all, set out for the day. We had a 14 hour lay-over so we decided to make the most of it. We stored our backpacks and [...]