Nile cruise and Egypt has always been a bucket list as I grew up with Agatha Christie books. When I first browsed about Nile Cruise, the standard packaged will be 4D3N from Aswan to Luxor or 5D4N from Luxor to Aswan. I didn’t have much time in Egypt to be spent on a 4 days…
Abu Simbel Temple is located in the Nubia region of Egypt. Overlooking the emerald waters of Lake Nasser, are the two ancient pharaonic rock temples of Abu Simbel : the Temple of Ramesses, beloved by Amun and the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari. The temples are a magnificent examples of ancient Egyptian art and draw…
Egyptian Museum is a short drive from Four Season Hotel. We took London Cab and reached there before it opens at 9am. A lot of people were already there waiting for the museum to open. You only need to pay additional fee if you want to take pictures using a camera. Taking pictures from mobile…
We dedicated Day 2 to explore all the important Pyramids in Cairo. For this we had to arranged transport and a guide. Waleed was able to arrange this even though he is based in Aswan. We were supposed to be picked up at 7 am but there were issues with Cairo road with the ongoing…
Flying from Jakarta to Cairo Lucky and I flew to Cairo from Jakarta using Garuda/Etihad transiting in Abu Dhabi. Departing Jakarta 17.55, transit in Abu Dhabi 3hr40min and land Cairo 04.35. We were so excited as we never travel together for a long holiday so we got to airport very early and had times to…
There are castles… and then there is Neuschwanstein Castle. Perched dramatically above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen, this 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a private retreat and a tribute to his beloved composer, Richard Wagner. If it looks like something out of a Disney film, that’s because it practically is —…
Munich — the capital of Bavaria — was our last destination in this Bavarian girls trip, and honestly, by the time we rolled in on the train from Salzburg, we were in full “keep it simple, keep it walkable” mode. We stayed near München Hauptbahnhof (Central Station). Is it the prettiest area in Munich? Not really. It can feel a…
One of the main reasons we visited Salzburg was to join the famous Sound of Music Tour. As big fans of the movie (My Mom kept playing this movie when I was a child), we booked the Original Sound of Music Tour by Panorama Tours, which takes visitors to several filming locations around Salzburg and the nearby countryside. The…
From Hallstatt, we continued our Europe by train Girls’ trip to Salzburg. Salzburg is an Austrian city near the border with Germany, framed by views of the Eastern Alps and divided by the gentle flow of the Salzach River. On one side sits the medieval and baroque Altstadt (Old Town), a UNESCO World Heritage Site…
Why we stayed two nights in Austria’s most photographed village—and why one afternoon would never have been enough. Hallstatt is often treated like a checklist stop: arrive mid-morning, squeeze through the crowds for the same postcard photo, buy a magnet, and leave before dinner. We did the opposite. Instead of cramming Hallstatt into a rushed…
