Nile Odyssey: Ethiopia-Sudan-Egypt

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Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ethiopian Highlands, North West, South Africa
From Jan 27, 2019 to Mar 25, 2019

Trip Details

Looking for 1-3 travel buddies for this epic trip!!!

I am embarking on an epic adventure through some of the most dramatic, historic landscapes of Africa. I will start in Ethiopia and take a month to explore this fascinating, incredibly diverse country, one of the world's oldest Christian nations and also the most mountainous one in Africa, where dramatic cliffs hide medieval monasteries, a colourful fauna and the many peoples woven together by the epic lore of legend that incorporates the Ark of Covenant and Queen of Sheba among others. This is also the land which hides some of the most otherworldly landscapes on Earth, in the Danakil Dwepression, where green lakes in bright yellow-red scorched earth competes with volcanic lakes of molten lava. 


From there I plan to transit through Sudan, one of the world's most undiscovered countries, where the hospitality is supposedly legendary and which hides undiscovered, crowd-free pyramids and Egyptian-Nubian sites with no tourist hassle. From there, I plan to take the ferry across Lake Nasser to Egypt, where I will crown the trip off with world-famous monuments like Karnak and Pyramids of Giza, but also visit some smaller sites and hopefully take a dive into the submerged shipwrecks as well as into local culture.

The trip is an adventurous backpacking trip. Transport will be by public transit, with only the very occasional hired car into places where you otherwise cannot get, like Danakil. In some remote sites, I wouldn't rule out hitchhiking. I would like to try Couchsurfing as much as possible as it is still one of the best ways to immerse into local culture. I would mostly stay in budget acommodations and wouldn't rule out wild camping occasionally. Would rent a bicycle or motorbike occasionally to explore remote sites (this is only likely possible in Egypt). Would happily stumble into spontaneous adventures and not set the itinerary in stone. Best things come when you let the flow of the trip carry you.

In broad, I plan to stay 1 month in Ethiopia and Egypt each and in Sudan for as long as they are going to give the visa for (it can be one week or more). I will personally not buy a return ticket - I will see if I maybe decide to extend the trip.


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From Vancouver, BC, Canada ; 35 Years Old

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