Encounters Travel

Collecting Treasures From Around The World

One day, when we finish traveling the world, I want to have a home filled with memories of our globetrotting.  Little knick-knacks that join together to form the story of our life-journey. This past week we stayed in iDesign Hotel in San Marino, one of the smallest countries in the world.  When talking with the […]

NOW is the perfect time to visit Egypt Part 3

NOW is the perfect time to visit Egypt – Part 3 of 3 This is the continuation of our Nile Explorer with Egypt Uncovered Tours. You can read all we have done so far on our Nile Explorer Part 1 here, and also Part 2 here. The next morning we had a really early start as we had selected an optional […]

NOW is the perfect time to visit Egypt Part 2

NOW is the perfect time to visit Egypt Part 2 of 3 This is the continuation of our Nile Explorer with Egypt Uncovered Tours. You can read all we have done so far on our Nile Explorer tour here. We woke really early at Hotel Helnan with a 3 a.m. start on Day 4 of our 9 Day tour in Egypt. And […]

NOW is the perfect time to visit Egypt Part 1

We have not disappeared off the face of the earth for the past week and a half. Rather we have been exploring Egypt with Egypt Uncovered on their Nile Explorer tour and in particular, the southern area near Sudan where the Nubian people of Egypt live. We traveled to Cairo via Istanbul, and it was a bit of […]

Visiting Alexandria Egypt for a day

Here we are in Country 52 of our World Journey, as we travel and learn through World-schooling as we go. We have been in Egypt for three days now, and it is time to meet a few others in our tour group. We have left behind the European Schengen Zone and our car, and I […]