The cobras at Saqarra - photos by David Rich

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Mummy Dearest: A Visit to the Real Egypt

A decade after first sampling Egypt’s pyramids, temples, obelisks, and other tourist traps (for ease of collective reference, mummies), I returned curious.

Had Egypt changed, and did it offer any attractions outside its well-worn mummies: the Pyramids, Sphinx, Egyptian Museum, obligatory cruise on a Nile hotel boat, ornate temples, and looted tombs? Surprisingly, I found viable alternatives to trodden tourist tracks... Read more

The Mystery of Egypt's Great Sand Sea

The Great Sand Sea of the eastern Sahara is aptly named; an unbroken mass of dunes the size of New Mexico which smothers the barren frontiers of Libya and Egypt and is home to not one living soul.

Parallel dune ridges run north-south for hundreds of miles, and anyone journeying here has to be exceptionally well prepared, as there's not a single well or water source in 150,000 square miles -- extreme even by Saharan standards... Read more

By Sand or By Sea: Sinai Safaris Take It All In

A mecca for pilgrims as well as sun worshippers, Egypt's Sinai desert is a lesson in duality --simultaneously holy and profane, barren and bountiful. Some travelers come as pilgrims; others prefer to sun themselves senseless on the beaches of Basata or Tarabin. But, for an alternative way to tour the region, try a Sinai safari... Read more

Qarat-Qasr-Salim - photo by David Rich

Egypt: Who WAS King Tut, Anyway?

A Celebration in Luxor

Desert Driving: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Overlanding the Sahara

Hollywood's North African Mirage

David Rich's Egyptian Photo Gallery

Siwa Oasis, Egypt: Visiting an Ancient Oracle

A Family Vacation in Egypt: Exciting and Relaxing