Archive for the 'Africa' Category

Khan Al Khalili

Cairo: THE mega city!

So its 12:00am, and I have just gotten off the plane that brought me from Casablanca to Cairo. I have two enormous suitcases since I have just moved out of my Moroccan apartment, where I had lived for the past six months. I have no cell phone, no money, and worst, no reservations. Did I think of booking a hotel in advance? NO.
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Les Cascades d'Ouzoud

Les Cascades d’Ouzoud…

Les Cascades d’Ouzoud… … was the location for our Oxfam-Quebec training session on Gestion Axée sur les Résultats.  Ouzoud is a very small village about 7 hrs (heading south) away from Rabat, the capital of Morocco and the place I call home.  We left early Friday morning and took a bus to a neighbouring town to take a “Grand Taxi”
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Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel: A day amongst giants

Waking up at 4:00am was definitely worth this trip! In preparation for our trip to Abu Simbel, we made arrangements with our hotel to borrow a pillow, arrange transport that could meet up with the early morning police convoy, and take a continental breakfast (which was packed in a cute little box) with us. Now police convoys always make me
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Homestay on Elephantine island

Nubian Nights

Before I embarked on the feluca, where I was to eat, sleep and live for the following two days while sailing down the Nile, I had the pleasure of being the guest of a homestay on Elephantine Island. A “homestay” is literally what its name implies: a local family open their doors to you for a very good price, and
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