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Days 2 & 3 in Egypt: Karnak Temple and Nile Cruise
If you haven’t read them, read first our first travel notebook in Egypt and the second travel notebook. Today, I will take you to the Karnak Temple in Luxor and discover our boat on the Nile. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary End of Day 2 in Egypt Tonight, we booked a private car to take us to the Karnak temple, wait for us for an hour and then bring us back. We intend to attend the sound and light show there. The sound and light show at Karnak Temple isn’t the best in Egypt but we want to have a preview of the…
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Days 1 & 2 in Egypt: Exceptional visits in Luxor
In the previous episode, I told you about our arrival in Luxor. Today, I am taking you on some exceptional visits to Luxor. Are you ready? Log in from a computer to see more pictures. Here we go! Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Day 1: Visit Luxor Temple by night It is 7:30 pm and we are starving. We walk from our hotel to Luxor Temple. Walking time: 6 minutes Number of pickers, requests for “calèche, calèche mon ami?” : 10 Tourists complain about it on all forums and blogs. Ohlala we are ATM on legs, ohlala scam ohlala too aggressive. In the…
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Day 1 in Egypt: Arrival in Luxor & Overnight at Winter Palace
After a month and a half in Turkey, we fly to Egypt where we spend 12 days of vacations. Pure vacations, no work, no call, no checking our emails. Nada! To have our complete itinerary day by day, I invite you to consult our itinerary here. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary How to get there If the organization of Istanbul International Airport is a disaster (they have difficulties to manage the large number of tourists), everything went well afterwards. We have to do Istanbul – Cairo then Cairo – Luxor by plane. The arrival in Cairo was very smooth. For info, we go…
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Digital Nomad in Istanbul (Turkey): Where to find an Apartment, Airbnb, Tips & Practical Travel Guide
Since we are digital nomads, Istanbul is the 3rd city where we have a lot of trouble finding a decent apartment (with Seoul and Osaka). The apartments we see on Airbnb are either too crowded, too dark, or too expensive and badly located. So we are going to write you here a small guide for digital nomads like us Istanbul Plan Istanbul is really huge, so I’ll just introduce you to the central part, what interests you the most in Istanbul Many tourists cross a bridge (Galata for the most part) and exclaim: I am in Asia! when it isn’t true. It isn’t because you cross a bridge that it…
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Turkey Travel Guide: 9 days 8 nights backpacking – Istanbul, Ephesus, Pamukkale and Cappadocia
We just spent a month in Istanbul (detailed guide here for digital nomads) with 2 long weekends in Cappadocia, Ephesus and Pamukkale.We are aware that a month is a very long period and most holidaymakers only spend one long weekend in Istanbul, or 10 days in Turkey. Therefore, we have prepared this itinerary for you. The links available in the article refer to the corresponding travel diaries. Have a nice trip! Day 1 : Arrival in Istanbul Airport Taxi => Downtown (about 60TL) Purchase of a transport pass: Istanbulkart at 6TL (+ 24 TL recharge recommended) Visit from Saint Sophia (40TL/person) (2h on site) Visit of the Basilica Tank (20TL/person)…
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Istanbul (Turkey) #7: Süleymaniye Mosque, Topkapi Palace & Shopping
After the rather disappointing visit of the Blue Mosque (half of which is under construction), we visit the Süleymaniye Mosque, which many tourists consider more beautiful than the Blue Mosque (well, only when it is under construction). Turkish BrunchBut before that, you have to have breakfast first. JB takes me to the Lebanese restaurant he likes a lot: Arada Café. This one is on the way to his gym and it’s not uncommon for him to take something to eat there while I cook for myself at home (diet obliges). For 49TL/person, we are entitled to all that, and obviously, we couldn’t finish everything. Süleymaniye MosqueFull belly, we leave to…
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Istanbul (Turkey) #6: Kuzguncuk, Uskudar – discovery of the Asian Shore
Today, we have an appointment with Kévin, an SEO colleague who knows Istanbul by heart. His Airbnb is on the Asian side, so we meet there to spend the evening together. Before crossing the beautiful bridge that separates Europe from Asia, we first stop at the mosque that we spotted from far from the restaurant with a panoramic view. Ortaköy MosqueThis is the mosque of Ortaköy. The locals seem to enjoy the scenery as much as we do, as many people sit here, chill out, enjoy the street food and the presence of the street cats. The interior is quite small, there is a nice ceiling height and numerous chandeliers.…
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[Thoughts] #2: Autobiographies
In the 2000s, the fashion was on the blog. Everybody had a blog. And among those thousands of blogs, I came across the one of a girl who never put a picture of herself. She wanted to confide in this personal space, without judgment, without being recognized.His blog was a kind of session at the shrink’s, open to all. An honest, unfiltered analysis of his life, his frustrations linked to the precariousness of his work but also his lack of confidence and his recent love relationship.I don’t know why I liked his blog so much. Maybe to make sure that even a person that I considered my ideal at that…
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Practical Pamukkale Backpacking Travel Guide: How to get there, What to visit, Addresses, Advice
We recently left Istanbul for Pamukkale in a backpack. If you haven’t read it yet, check out our travel diary For tips, addresses and advice, this guide is for you. Enjoy! PART 1: How to get there You have different options to get there from Istanbul On an organized tour This is the option that I do not recommend because it is so easy to move around on your own. All agencies in downtown Istanbul will offer you organized tours (with transportation) from Istanbul to Pamukkale(including tour, guide, transportation) for one day, round trip by plane from Istanbul Please note that tour operators also offer 2-day trips from Istanbul to…
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Pamukkale (Turkey): No Water, Big Disappointment
Have you seen incredible pictures of the immaculate white basins overflowing with clear water, where people were happily bathing in white mud that was too good for their skin? Well, that’s the vision sold by travel agencies, because Pamukkale isn’t like that anymore: Day 1 : After a day in Selçuk / Ephesus, we take the bus at 4:30 pm with the company Pamukkale Turizm (40TL/person). 3h30 later, having witnessed an exceptional sunset from the bus, we finally arrive in Denizli. We are all transferred in a mini bus. In haste and incomprehension (nobody warned us in Selçuk that there was a change of bus), one of the travelers forgot…
