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Backpacking in Egypt?

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daniserralta Premium account Joined: Aug 02 Points: 11491 Posts: 124 Posted: 2002-09-02 01:53:00    Do you think it´s really possible cross from Sudan by land and all along Egypt till the mediterranean coast??? You know, by the backpacking way of travel!! --- The journey is the reward. -- Tao saying Reply    Reply with quote    Contact daniserralta   daniserralta Premium account Joined: Aug 02 Points: 11491 Posts: 124 Posted: 2002-09-02 01:54:00    And ... it´s possible do all the way trough Egypt visiting the temples from Abu Simbel till Alexandria by land?? --- The journey is the reward. -- Tao saying Reply    Reply with quote    Contact daniserralta   inzaghi Joined: Jun 02 Points: 3862 Posts: 87 Posted: 2002-09-11 01:09:00    Middle Egypt - in and around Dendera - is still mostly out of bounds to tourists. Unless, like me, you enjoy being escorted by a tankful of military personnel. This is relatively updated information since I was personally in Egypt in April. By the way, I take it that you meant "by bus/foot" when you said "by land". If you take the train (only one of the two tourist trains available), you can get from upper Egypt to lower mostly without hitches. The overland bus link between Luxor/Aswan and Abu Simbel has once again reopened. You no longer have to take the jet. --- Lover of just five things - travelling, photography, thick crust pizzas, the xy-chromosomes, the Italians and the Dutch. Well, I can't count, so? Reply    Reply with quote    Contact inzaghi   sven_ak Joined: Sep 02 Points: 2294 Posts: 28 Posted: 2002-09-17 01:06:00    Whoa, be careful going in and around Sudan. Very careful. Not a friendly area and I know this via NOT personal experience, but many of which I have come across. I have spent a fair amount of time in Egypt and I know the Red Sea to be very dangerous when you are south by Sudan. Inland areas are open to the farmers, but pirates are everywhere, land and sea (again, I have not been here but only from what many have told me) --- "I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he is not careful." -Yann Martel Reply    Reply with quote    Contact sven_ak