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Captors show Egyptian hospitality to American tourists
San Francisco bay area Norma Supe, a 63-year-old nurse from Union City, and 66-year old Patti Ganal, of Los Gatos, recounted their brief but intense experience as hostages in Egypt, after being snatched Friday from a minivan on a tour of Sinai. The two women, Ganal’s husband and two other Americans had finished a tour... »
Two Opposing Views on Egypt’s Tribal Tourism
Image by CharlesFred via Flickr Egypt Explores Tourism Beyond The Package Tour A budding eco-travel movement is emerging, almost unnoticed amid the bulging tour buses and packed cruise ships. Its leaders are trying to tap into the skills and knowledge of Egypt’s Bedouins and other tribal peoples, who have been all but ignored by the mainstream... »
A not so glitzy way to live off Egypt tourism for Sinai Bedouins
An estimated 30,000 Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula are no longer able to make enough milk, butter and cheese off their animals. A severe drought over the past years has dried out available pasture land and is forcing them to eek out a meager existence out of the waste left by the coastal Egypt... »
A joyful encounter with the desert people of Egypt
Image by ©M o c c a . CHOCOLATA via Flickr Forty-five tribes have populated Egypt’s deserts for millennia and yet their existence remains a mystery to the country’s urban masses. The Characters of Egypt Festival aims to showcase their ways of life. The aim of the festival is to provide a meeting opportunity for... »
