Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’

Solo in Egypt: Travel for One in a One-of-a-Kind Country

Egypt may be my travel regret, but it’s not Kristen Elise’s. This aspiring author has traveled alone to the Land of the Pharaohs to do research for her novel, and in the process, learned much about how to get by in Egypt as a solo female traveler. Here, she offers a few practical tips to [...]

Interview with a Solo Traveler, Part I: A Life Abroad

Imagine you are a U.S. citizen in Ghana doing volunteer work and you are awakened to screams and the pounding of running feet.  When you look outside, you see hundreds of men–your neighbors, people you’ve come to care about–running for the bush, running for their lives, as the women of the town scream for them [...]