The archive
The archive presents all articles on this international edition of Sandalsand, 24 at a time. They are sorted in a chronological order.
Use the arrows at the bottom to browse four decades of travels in near and faraway countries. That may be time consuming, even though you can make large jumps. Use the search field here instead, if there is something in particular you are curious about.
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Pictures from Egypt
This is a collection of pictures from Egypt, the result of a trip in 2005 to different parts of the country. If you look up all articles from...
Back in Cairo for more
Back in Cairo after the cruise on the Nile, for a last round of sightseeing - this time to sites not originating in Ancient Egypt. This article is...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (10) Cairo
This video from Cairo is the tenth video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. "Historic Cairo" is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (8) Luxor today
This video from Luxor today is the eighth video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna - Luxor....
Luxor’s palaces and the Valley of the Kings
We were on a tour of the Nile and went on to visit Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, and the temples of Karnak and Luxor. This article is one of four...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (7) Luxor Temple
This video from Luxor Temple is the seventh video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna - Luxor....
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (6) Karnak
This video from the Karnak temple is the sixth video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna -...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (5) Valley of the Kings
This video from the Valley of the Kings is the fifth from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna -...
World Heritage #0087 – Ancient Thebes
Have you ever wished to visit the tomb of Tutankhamun? You can do that here at the ancient Thebes with its Necropolis, outside Luxor. The UNESCO...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (4) Esna
This video from Esna is the fourth video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna - Luxor. Esna is...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (3) Edfu
This video is from Edfu, some 115 km north of Aswan and 100 km south of Luxor. It is the third video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor....
Aswan and the south
Our tour of the Nile started with a night train up the Nile to Aswan and continued on a cruise ship north to the temples of Kom Ombo, Edfu and Esna....
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (2) Kom Ombo
This video is from the Temple of Kom Ombo some 50 km north of Aswan. It is the second video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The...
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (1) Aswan
This video is from Aswan. It is the first video from a cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The stops: Aswan - Kom Ombo - Edfu - Esna - Luxor....
VIDEO – Egypt – The Nile (9) Giza
This video from Giza includes the World Heritage Site "Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur". It is no. 86 on...
World Heritage #0086 – The Pyramids
Every person on earth have heard of, and seen a picture of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. They have been around for thousands of years. The...
Cairo and the Pyramids
We went on a spontaneous tour of Egypt. This time it was my youngest (at the time 7 years of age) son who joined me to Cairo and the Pyramids, and...
World Heritage #0089 – Historic Cairo
Cairo is truly historic. The capital of Egypt has for millennia been at the centre of world history, and there is much to discover here. The UNESCO...
VIDEO – Spain – Madrid
This video from Madrid consists of videos and animated photographs from a weekend in Madrid. Locals and others will find it illustrating of what...
Madrid, the Spanish capital
Madrid is a capital and has been so for centuries. That is easy to notice walking and driving around this city of royals. We had no...
Pictures from France
This is a collection of Sandalsand's pictures from France. They are digital evidence of trips to different parts of the country over many years. If...
Corsica, an island in the sun
This summer we chose a destination where everybody, big and small, could have their wishes realised. Therefore we went to Corsica. The boys...
VIDEO – France – Corsica – North Coast
This is a video from a car ride from the east coast to the north western coast of Corsica. Key words are Corte, L'Île-Rousse and the Artisan Route...
VIDEO – France – Corsica – East Coast
This is a video from a car ride down the east coast of Corsica. It runs from Bastia to Porto Vecchio, on to the Palombaggia Beach and ends in...
Quotes
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. (David Rockefeller)
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. (Australian Aboriginal Proverb)
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. (Walter Lippmann)
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place…. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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