About three months back, I was in Egypt. Egypt to me has been enigmatic in more ways than I could imagine. While there, I immersed myself to soak in the culture of the land of the pharaohs. They may have lived 7500 years ago but their memories are... Read More

Whilst penning a travelogue, one has to sort out hundreds, if not thousands, of memories and snapshots and select a few of the best or most illustrative ones and mercilessly discard the rest. My intention was to limit the series on Egypt to just t... Read More

A ghumakkar loves serendipitous moments, when one comes across something remarkable but totally unexpected. I had such an experience a few minutes after landing in Cairo. The drive to the hotel from the airport was rather uninteresting as the archite... Read More

Egyptian civilisation is not just about its Pharaonic past and Islāmic present. There was a glorious Greco-Roman period in the intervening period which spanned nearly a millennium.  To have a glimpse of that era, I travelled to Alexandria, 180 km... Read More

I kicked off my tour of the pyramids with Saqqara, a place 20 kilometres south of Cairo, where the first Egyptian pyramid was built. Saqqara was a necropolis attached to Memphis, the ancient capital, where a number of pharaohs and aris... Read More