In which Zach visits picturesque Alexandria, the city that succeeds in blurring Egyptian and European culture better than anywhere else, and ventures off the beaten path…sometimes not by choice!
The Personal Blog of Zach Heise
In which Zach visits picturesque Alexandria, the city that succeeds in blurring Egyptian and European culture better than anywhere else, and ventures off the beaten path…sometimes not by choice!
In which Zach meets his new mum(mies) in the mind-blowing Egyptian Museum. He also somehow finds himself in what he thought was Istanbul, but actually was just ancient Islamic Cairo in a similar architectural style
In which Zach visits the Pyramids of Giza, rides a somewhat clumsy horse, and inadvertently becomes a friend to a dozen Egyptian kids
In which Zach starts off with his friend Haitham on his first journey to Egypt, jewel of the Arab World, and has an interesting and possibly discriminatory experience with Egyptian customs control.
It’s been a year in the making, but Haitham and I are only a few hours from being airborne from Jordan to Egypt, or Musr as it’s called in Arabic. The two of us originally started planning this last year when our friend Silas was still in Jordan, but things never panned out and we […]