Full Day Trip To Al Fayoum Oasis | Excursions Out Of Cairo Egypt The Faiyum Oasis (or Al-Fayoum Oasis, Al Fayyum Oasis, and other variations in spelling) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately to the west of the Nile south of Cairo. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 490 mi² (1,270 km²) and 656 mi² (1700 km²). The basin floor comprises fields watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it...more
Alexandria Sightseeing Day Trip | Excursions From Cairo Egypt Alexandria was founded around a small pharaonic town c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great. It remained Egypt's capital for nearly a thousand years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (Fustat was later absorbed into Cairo). Alexandria was known because of its Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the...more
Visit Mount Sinai & St.Catherine | Sightseeing Tours From Cairo Egypt Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in Saint Katherine city in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title.The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I (reigned 527-565), enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. It is also referred to as "St. Helen's Chapel." The site is sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.According to tradition, Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr initially sentenced to death on the wheel. However, when this failed to kill her, she was beheaded. According to tradition, angels took her remains to Mount...more
The Reason Why It's so Essential That You Perform a Credit Card Comparison Carrying out a thorough credit card comparison is the ideal strategy for finding the charge card that's going to supply you with the consumer credit that you require. When it comes to evaluating credit card offers, you must check out each individual...more
The Secret Bars of London Once in a while it is always nice to discover your new favourite bar or pub which is a little under the radar, hidden away from the masses and offers something different to your usual meet up with friends for a drink. Or you maybe visiting London and are determined to avoid the tourist trap bars and pubs in...more
Styles and Designs of Original American Greeting Cards Whether we are far from people we love like our families; or we want to say something but can't find the right words to express ourselves; American greeting cards can say it for us.How many times have we found ourselves in a fix because we want so much to let someone know how we feel but words seem to elude us? Thankfully, there are greeting cards that can do the talking for us and they can say exactly what we are feeling; as if the words came straight from our lips.Greeting Cards for All OccasionsThe good thing about American greeting cards is that there's one for every occasion. So whether we are looking for a card to express sympathy to a friend who has lost a loved one; or we want to congratulate a sibling for having graduated from school; there are American greeting cards that fit every imaginable event in our lives.What are two of the hardest things for us to express? Love and apology. Perhaps we find these two the hardest to say because they are teeming with so much emotion that we are overwhelmed by them.With American greeting cards, we no longer have to agonize over how to say these things. If we want to...more
How to Fight the Winter Blues with Scrapbooking Why do some folks hate winter time so much? Is it the cold, the snow, the icy roads, or is it something else they truly fear, like getting the winter blues because they always think...more
The story of the cruise holiday that energised me The launch of the new Celebrity Cruises ship, Celebrity Eclipse will no doubt be a great new accumulation for the growing UK cruise marketplace.The innovative Celebrity Cruises vessel,...more
Americans Don't See It Coming! Americans Don't See It Coming!For the past sixty days I have been on a campaign of alerting all who I can reach that the domestic and global economies are headed for a very rocky path over the next...more
Belfor Franchise Group President Earns Distinguished Program Honor John Rotche Receives Certified Franchise Executive DesignationAnn, Arbor, MI — John Rotche, President of the BELFOR Franchise Group, was recognized on February 16th...more
Achieve your dreams as a strip dancer Strip dancing is not as easy as it seems to the common people; the strippers have to go through several difficulties to get good popularity as a strip dancer. The erotic dancers must learn all the...more
Minnesota Tours: A Lake Superior History The Split Rock Lighthouse is part of the Minnesota Tour of the North Shore. Check out our MN Tours online at Open Road Adventures.You can check out our free podcasts, including Lake...more