Do Egypt properly!
Back in my backpacking days my now-husband and I booked a spur of the moment trip to Egypt. It turned out to be one of those trips where you can only look back and laugh.
Our luggage got lost on the way there, arriving more 24 hours after we did. Having delightedly extracted clean clothes from our packs, we checked out of the hotel and left the bags with them to collect that evening. After an amazing day at the Pyramids we returned to collect our bags before hoping on an overnight train to Luxor. Sadly, we discovered the bags had left many hours earlier with a tour group heading across the Sinai Peninsula in the opposite direction. The train couldn’t be changed, so once the hotel had tracked down the tour bus and established they did indeed have our bags, they arranged for them to be delivered to Luxor the following night. Cue another 24 hours without clean clothes or a toothbrush. We rolled from one disaster to the next, from mutinous camels to getting stuck in a lift…and yet it stays in my mind as one of the best trips ever. Despite all the chaos of our trip, Egypt is such an incredible country and I’m so grateful we went. I am delighted it has opened up again as a tourist destination after years of instability, and I can’t recommend it highly enough!
We have an MTA Exclusive Package on sale until the 28th of Feb, which includes 12 nights in Egypt, Cairo to Cairo including Aswan, Luxor and a Nile Cruise. Travel dates are 5th – 10th October 2019, and the tour is $5149pp including international airfares.
Learn for my experience, and do Egypt, but do it properly! Contact me for more info about how we can get you there: mvaughan@mtatravel.com.au