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03/11/2022

Dubai was an awesome last stop on this epic adventure 💎

We found some great views of the incredible Burj Al Arab, explored the Palm Jumeirah (a giant manmade island that looks like a palm leaf from above), found some of the best sweets we had the entire trip, and met for dinner with more of Tarek’s good friends!

01/11/2022

We went to the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa!

The Dubai Fountain complex outside was massive too, and performed a show synced with music.

We also spent the evening the Global Village, a super cool “theme park” that represents most of the world’s countries through amazing facades, markets, music, and food stalls! 🇹🇭🇺🇸🇪🇬🇦🇷 it was especially beautiful at night: all the lights came alive and there were shows, dancing, and drum parades too 😍

31/10/2022

We’re here in Dubai, and it is flash✨😎

The city has just about everything you can imagine… In the malls, you can see sharks, snow ski, and ice skate.

It has the world’s tallest building, largest OLED screen, fastest elevator, biggest ferris wheel, fastest roller coaster, and so much more!

And there are so many stellar structures, luxurious buildings, shops, supercars, and beaches, mixed in with markets (like Souk Madinet Jumeirah) and traditional food…it’s really something else!

Our first day, we walked the restaurants and shops at Jumeirah Beach Residences and JBR Beach, then met up with friends for dinner at a cool place in an area called Blue Waters (under the ferris wheel) for dinner and drinks 🎡

29/10/2022

We spent more time around Beirut, checking out the famous Pigeon Rocks, Mohammad Al Amin Mosque, more incredibly delicious food, and the night life in Mar Mikhael 😍🔊

Tourism hasn’t fully returned to Beirut after the explosion that happened near the city in 2021. This plus COVID affected heaps of shops and restaurants, causing them to close down, and many haven’t rebuilt.

29/10/2022

Exploring Byblos: the Old Souk and Mediterranean Sea 🌆

Plus, some of the BEST food:

- Halloumi with figs

- Manakish (dough topped with thyme and lebnah)

- Ras asfour (beef with nuts and herbs with a pomegranate sauce)

- Knafeh with cheese (Brian’s favourite food of the entire trip)

- Lebanese bread with carob molasses, caramelised almonds, tahini, halawa, strawberry, and pistachios

Wow, wow, wow.

28/10/2022

We’ve made it to Lebanon! 🇱🇧

Lebanon is known for its delicious food, ancient ruins and castles, beaches, churches, mosques, and even ski mountains in the winter.

We are staying in Beirut, and got to see so much on our first day.

We walked through Byblos…one of the world’s oldest continually-inhabited cities since 5000 BC 🤯 The area we visited had a castle and protective walls built around the city about 1500 years ago.

We also took a walk and a boat ride through the Jaitta Grotto, a two-level cave network filled with giant stalactites and stalagmites, mini waterfalls, and a serene river that flows through the bottom (no photos allowed).

Then we took the mountain cable car (called the Téléferique) 🚠 up to the top of the mountain overlooking the city to visit Harissa, home of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, featuring a statue honouring the Virgin Mary.

28/10/2022

Views from around Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴😍

27/10/2022

Dead Sea + mud bath!

The last stop of our tour through Jordan was the Dead Sea 🌊

It was awesome - the salt content is so high that there’s no need for treading water or swimming to stay afloat. You just float!

And the effect was WAY stronger than we expected, we could even “stand” straight up and down and be bobbing out of the water!

The mineral composition of the water and surrounding mud has a bunch of benefits for your skin and circulation too. Everyone covered themselves in mud and washed it off after 15 minutes for nice and soft skin.

27/10/2022

The next day, we woke up for breakfast and coffee with our group, then visited a few cool locations in the valley on the way out.

We saw petroglyphs left from humans who lived there in prehistoric times, giant sand dunes that Tarek and Brian raced to the top of, an epic natural arch formed by a massive rock structure, and a system the current inhabitants use to channel water from up the mountains to down into the camps!

26/10/2022

We spent a night in one of the coolest places in the Middle East: WADI RUM 🐪🏜️

From Petra, it was a few hours south to Wadi Rum (or, “Valley of the Moon”). It’s the desert-like valley in south Jordan, protected by mountains and dotted with Bedouin camps.

We hopped in on a 4x4 truck and arrived at sunset for the most beautiful view on the drive in. It just felt so BIG and expansive as our tiny truck drove through a land of gigantic mountains, with sand dunes that seemed to go on forever.

We slept in a tent under one of the biggest, most beautiful starry skies we’d ever seen 🌌

For dinner, the workers at the camp prepared a special meal by igniting coals under the sand and cooking chicken on an underground cooker!

After dinner, we danced with the locals and tourists and sat by the fire until it got too cold to stay out!

25/10/2022

We went to the amazing ancient city of PETRA!

The next morning, we grabbed coffee and met up with a new group we'd spend the next two days with.

Our guide Ja'far was great: he's known as "Mr. See You Tomorrow" because instead of "okay" his go-to response is "see you tomorrow!"

Petra is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World and was built around 2,500 years ago and only rediscovered in the 1800s.

It has 15 major sites including a church, a monastery, a treasury, a collection of tombs, an outdoor theatre, and more, plus a network of channels to distribute water throughout the city - all carved into the side of mountains! 😮

25/10/2022

After a few days of diving, we had planned to climb Mount St Catherine, the highest mountain in Egypt. But to avoid decompression sickness (ascending high in altitude soon after diving), we switched up our plans and spent a relaxing day at the beach up the coast in a town called Taba.

Early the next morning, we flew back to Cairo, had a breakfast and coffee with two of Tarek’s friends Alaa and Shady, then connected to the next stop on our trip: Jordan!

We arrived at our Airbnb in Lweibdeh, a “hipster” part of town with heaps of cool little local restaurants and shops lit up with lights and decorations!

We had the “best shawerma in the world” at Shawerma 3a Saj (it really was….) then got ice cream at a place called Gerard - good stuff!

21/10/2022

This little cleaner wrasse wanted to help Brittani clean her teeth during our dive! 😄🤙🏼

21/10/2022

Diving, day 3: Dahab! 🫧

Our first dive was relaxed and right from the shore. While there wasn’t much animal life, there were cool statues and underwater art, like this metal elephant in the photo.

Our next dive was the Blue Hole, called one of the most famous dive sites in the world. It started at a location called The Bells, a narrow dive straight down between rocky walls, then emerged into open ocean after a few minutes. Eventually we reached the Blue Hole and swam up through it to end the dive. We’re all certified to dive 30m deep, but some other groups of divers went down 130m all the way to the bottom!

One of the highlights was the little fish that would swim right up to your face…and if you opened your mouth, they would swim in and clean your teeth!

We finished with a third dive at a location called The Canyon, a fun dive with a few rocky swim-throughs.

20/10/2022

A beautiful Day 2 of diving, this time at Ras Mohammed 🫧 a highlight was seeing the remnants of an old shipwreck at Shark & Yolanda Reef!

In the evening, we walked around Naama Bay, had a juice on the beach, then had a dinner on the roof of a cool place called Camel Bar.

19/10/2022

Scuba diving day one of three 😍 and Brian/Brittani’s first time in the beautiful Red Sea!

We went to Tiran Island, where a main standout is the clear water and colourful coral. We also saw a few pufferfish, moray eels (including the biggest we’ve ever seen), a boxfish, two blue spotted rays, two lionfish, and more 🐠

19/10/2022

We’re here in Sharm El Sheikh, one of Egypt’s top and most famous locations for scuba diving! ✨ We took it easy our first night + day, sleeping in, hanging at the pool, and getting in a workout.

We read some superb reviews about a nightlife spot Farsha, not too far from our hotel. It was a drinks/dinner/shisha spot built into the side of a mountain, right on the sea. We were so glad we checked it out…and we stayed the entire evening!

It was decorated with modern and traditional Egyptian antiques, artifacts, and designs, so much that it was hard to tell where the restaurant ended and the mountain began! Everyone sat in “farshas” - cushions with pillows and tables shared with other small parties!

It was so cool, every other group we met was from a different country: Azerbaijan, Italy, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Israel… It also played middle-eastern electro and trance music…it was the definition of “good vibe”! 🌀

17/10/2022

‎شكرا يا طنط صباح علي كرم الضيافه في أسيوط.. هتوحشينا ونتمني نشوفك علي خير .. مع حبنا بريتني و براين

We had the incredible privilege to meet and stay with Tarek’s amazing family in Asyut, Egypt: some of the most welcoming and purely generous people we’ve ever met.

Asyut is a special place. We had tea on a boat, Brian tried roasted pigeon for first time, Brittani had cooking lessons in preparing koshary, and we shared stories with so many of Tarek’s family!

*Thank you* for the hospitality, delicious food, thoughtful gifts, and wonderful experience in Asyut: we will never forget it! ❤️

16/10/2022

Our last day in Luxor started with a wonderful hot air balloon ride (Tarek’s first ever!) - it was awesome seeing the sites from the previous day from above!

After that we visited the biggest temple complex in the world: Karnak Temple.

This was incredible, it was a giant complex and had some of the coolest structures we had seen, like these huge pillars covered in hieroglyphics.

We ended our day here at the Luxor temple, one of the coolest things here was Sphinx Avenue: a row of 150 sphinx statues between this temple and Karnak!

16/10/2022

We visited the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, a super cool and well-preserved three-story temple that was one of our favs.

Next, Ahmed showed us a special location: one of the few tombs that specifically shows hieroglyphics detailing how the ancient Egyptians made wine and built huge structures like pyramids 🤯 it also had another underground area, we had to crouch through a tunnel to two very rooms of detailed carvings and wall paintings, like the ones of grapes on the ceiling!

15/10/2022

We took the train from Aswan north for a couple of VERY hot days around Luxor! 💎

We met our new guide Ahmed and first visited Valley of the Kings: the tombs of 65 powerful nobles (including King Tut), dug underground and with entrances built right into the side of the mountain!

One of our favourite tombs was Ramses IX, check out the photos of the thousands of hieroglyphics lining the walls leading down into the tomb 😮

This afternoon, we stopped by a local manufacturer of alabaster and granite, and after some bargaining, we walked away with a couple of nice pieces 🏺

14/10/2022

This morning we had a 3:15am wake up call - not the earliest of the trip, but still very early!

We drove south three hours to Abu Simbel, a huge temple complex for King Ramses II and Queen Nefertari, carved directly into the side of the mountain stone!

It was seriously incredible, with the massive statues outside and intricate carvings inside. One of our favourite temples so far.

14/10/2022

Our time in Nubia was spent both relaxing around the village we stayed in and seeing Aswan’s two dams, the Unfinished Obelisk, plus the magnificent Philae temple complex on an island.

We went kayaking, had a tour of Heissa Island (a traditional Nubian village), and checked out the restaurants and bazaars in Aswan.

14/10/2022

We flew down south (to “Upper Egypt” - because it’s higher in elevation) and stayed in Nubia - one of the world’s earliest civilisations ever…and it is really something special.

The feel of Nubia is so unique: the bright colours and designs mixed with the sandyness and the Nile…the whole vibe and culture is SO cool!

Brian keeps saying the village feels like being inside the old King’s Quest video games 🪔🪄

13/10/2022

Our second day in Fayoum, we cooked up our lunch in the sand and visited a few other ancient archeological sites around Lake Qaroun 🌀

13/10/2022

We wanted desert, we GOT desert! We drove down to Fayoum, a little oasis town in the Sahara Desert 🌵

One of our first activities was 4x4ing into the Sahara 😍 and we had a super cool guide Eissa who Is originally from here and was so excited to show us around.

40 million years ago, this entire area used to be ocean. And a couple hours in, we arrived at a museum with fossils of ancient animals - WHALES that used to have legs and walk on land! We also walked through an outdoor gallery of other fossils. Brian and Eissa capped off the walk with a run back to the car 🔥

Our driver had some fun on the sand dunes…we would drive to the tip top of really tall dunes, then speed down the side, our stomachs dropped and it felt just like a roller coaster!

We had our lunch in a beautiful and super cool Bedouin desert camp right near one of the town’s three lakes, then went sandboarding on the dunes overlooking the lake 😎

To cap off the day, our driver brewed up red tea by lighting coals directly in the sand, and we drank it while watching the sunset over the lake - magical!

12/10/2022

We were thankful to explore more of Cairo, which took us first to a restaurant where we had some excellent shawarma (one of our favourite lunches of the entire trip), plus a delicious cane sugar juice around the corner 😍🥤

We visited the RG Gayer-Anderson art museum (which was a setting for part of the film 007: The Spy Who Loved Me), as well as three beautiful mosques - Ibn Tulum, Sultan Hussan, and Al-Rifai’i.

The final one was an especially beautiful experience: we didn’t only get to go up into one of the towers, walk the roof, and walk the inside of the mosques, but also be inside during the afternoon prayer.

Our day ended with a dinner at a place called Abou El Sid, somewhere Tarek had been many years ago. We had hawawshi (DELICIOUS), falafel, and Brian tried molokhaya for the first time!

11/10/2022

We rode camels through the sands outside the pyramids before visiting the Sphinx. Our camels were named 007, Casanova, and Bob Marley! 🐪

11/10/2022

PYRAMIDS. SPHINX. A dream come true.

Seeing the pyramids was truly stunning. It’s difficult to put into words how awesome this was!

The Great Pyramid was built about 4,500 years ago. FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO😱

The lower-level blocks are up to 10 tons… that’s 20,000 pounds! And there’s still so much mystery about exactly how the pyramids were built ✨

It is the oldest of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World. Brian and Tarek went inside and crawled through a tiny corridor up to the King’s Chamber!

10/10/2022

We drove up to Alexandria to see more of Egypt. Alexandria has a rich history and blends Roman, Greek, and Egyptian culture, and is where many Egyptians come for the beach and a summer holiday.

While it should have only taken 3 1/2 hours to get there, it took over five because of crazy traffic due to Egypt’s 6th of October holiday.

We visited the legendary Library of Alexandria (unfortunately closed inside on the day we were there), Pompey’s Pillar, and the Kom el Shoqafa catacombs - used as an underground burial chamber in 200-400 AD but only re-discovered in 1900. It’s truly unbelievable how ancient some of these sites are!

To top off our day, we ate some top seafood at Sam Giovanni Hotel overlooking the beach, then watched the sunset from across the city’s famous bridge.

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This little cleaner wrasse wanted to help Brittani clean her teeth during our dive! 😄🤙🏼

Imagine walking out of the bathroom right into a giant elephant 😂 the elephant was just as scared of Sarina as she was of it!

After the Serengeti, we spent the night on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, a giant circle of land created from a former volcano. Because of the high elevation and wind blowing up through the crater, it was freezing cold, but thankfully we had extra blankets and hot showers. The views from our camp overlooking the crater were amazing. But the best part was that the campsite was not fenced - animals could walk right into and through where we had our tents set up! We first had an elephant show up and roam the campsite, then five zebras ran through 😍 Later in the night after dinner, zebras and water buck grazed near the tents - it was awesome! In the middle of the night, Brian woke up and heard some animal noises that sounded like they were coming from just outside the tent, and got out to look, but whatever it was was actually back in the trees.

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