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Articles and Travel Stories
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Some may disagree, but we don't believe itineraries are the best way to present tours. This especially as we don't provide only a handfull of package tours, but want you to be able to tailor make your own tour. To make this possible we believe practical information and stories/articles goes hand in hand.

Khan in Cairo, forerunner to what we today knows as a "mall" - 600 years old. See larger photo

Egyptian History in a Nutshell
Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - The Old Kingdom
c 3686-2181BC
Part 3 - The Middle & New Kingdom
c 2050-1786BC & 1567-1085BC
Part 4 - The New Kingdom
c 1567-1085BC
Part 4 - Greek / Roman period
c 332BC-639AD
5 articles from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has the largest collection of Pharaonic artefacts. Here we take you on a walk through the museum, and use the opportunity to give you 3000 years history in a nutshell.

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Beyond Life and Shortcuts
Surpassing Dreams
Rags, Riches & Fairy Tales
3 articles from the City of the Dead. Follow us on a walking tour far away from masstourism, into the amazing city of the dead where people live among amazing monuments and tombs. Understand why Ibn Khaldun six hundred years ago wrote: "What one sees in dreams surpasses reality, but all that one could dream of Cairo falls short of the truth".

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St. Antony Monastery
The first monastery in Christianity
The Christians in Egypt say that Egypt have witnessed and given three parts to Christianity: The Holy Family seeking protection in Egypt, Evangelist St. Mark who came to Egypt and wrote down his gospel, and the Christian monasticism. For the last point, here it's the hermit St. Antony who is consider the father of monasticism - and the monastery bearing his name is still active with around 120 monks. Read more about this and see photos from the St. Antony Monastery.

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Mr. Ibsen I presume?
Based upon a forgotten travelogue by Henrik Ibsen. The author was invited to the opening of the Suez channel in 1869 and the tour went up the Nile all the way to Luxor. His writing was never finished due to another work that took all his time, and the sketch has never been translated before undersigned published the story some years ago in the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram Weekly.

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Nature Calling, Cosmos Falling...in?
Fishing in Sahara
The Western Desert cover two third of the Egypt. Another upcoming gem of Egypt; the Western Desert with its oasis, its desert culture, its traditions and the important Pharaonic, Christian and Islamic monuments and. A multifaceted and vast sandscape these two articles will give you a tiny glimpse into.

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Hava Nice Trib!
Must be difficult to visit Egypt without seeing Luxor, the place on earth where most ancient monuments are gathered in one place. This is Luxor revised (from 2001) and it gives a glimpse into one of the most typical Egyptian qualities, humour!

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Pyramid areas of Cairo
With special visits to two Mastaba-tombs. The pyramids area around and south of Cairo is where nearly all pyramids were built more than four thousand years ago. We will visit the mastaba-tomb of Ptah-Hotep and Ti.

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The Secret in Coffee cups
Those who enter will find a coffeeshop so surreal that Salvodor Dali would have turned in his egg had he seen it. Allow us to invite you for a tea or turkish coffee in one of the best preserved secrets of Cairo.

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A Travel Consultant with Wings
From Monasticism to the White House
Pyramids - Oh Holy Liberty
His Holiness in Black
Until I bring thee word...
5 articles from the Holy Family's journeys in Egypt. From the flight from Bethlehem to Egypt and the Holy Family during their years in Egypt. Including how Christianity developed in their footsteps in this Nile country.

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The only remaining obelisk in Yuno. Two is abroad, one in London and the other in Rome.

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NEW:
A Photo Journey to the Egyptian Museum.
Follow us around the Egyptian Museum through more than 30 pages with pictures and text. These pages will along with new and large photo give an introduction to the history of ancient Egypt.

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National Geographic rates Norwegian Fjords as the top world destination.
Follow us over to NorwayMyWay to see photos of the fjords and find out why these fjords has been selected as the world top destination!

A Virtual Tour to Pyramids and Tombs.
On this virtual tour you follow us to the Pyramid area of Cairo and visit two 4400 year old Mastaba tombs. Included is the meeting "Tea with Ti".

A Photo Journey through the City of the Dead.
Follow our tour via the camera into a treasure chamber unknown for most. See medieval history and unbelievable monuments far away from mass tourism.

Luxor is a rather small town compared to Cairo and Alexandria. Still, no place on this planet can you find so many monuments gathered at one place as here. One normally needs more than a package tour to be able to enjoy the city and see a fair part of what is found here.

MAPS of Greater Cairo. One full Cairo map from the airport in east to the pyramids in west along with four more detailed maps! Good tools while planning tours to Egypt

OUR BACKGROUND   

The four of us who is responsible for Egyptmyway.com have a collected experience of more than half a century in management positions within Egyptian tour operations. Holding lectures in Egyptology as the modern culture, guided special journeys and been responsible for television and film productions. Hotels, luxury tour operators as Abercrombie and Kent, American Express Travel and European charter operations to this destination.

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MAPs OF EGYPT  

We provide you with maps of Egypt, a full map including the Nile valley, the deserts and Sinai. Map of Greater Cairo and a very special Nile Valley map with the original Ancient Egyptian names. More maps will be added including plan drawings of important monuments.