Month: April 2013

  • First Call to Antalya

    After finally leaving the African Continent and one seaday, we arrived on the next Continent, Asia! Ok, just quite geographically seen, but Antalya resides on the Asian Continent. Antalya will be our Embarcation-Port for the next few cruises, so we headed to the city center to see what we could do. The first thing was,…

  • From Alexandria to the Pyramids

    After leaving the Suez-Chanel, we were meant to stop in Port Said, but due to the unsafe conditions there, we changed our port of call and went to Alexandria. From there, we organized a crew-tour to the Pyramids in Gizeh! Our little private Bus took us almost 2 hours from Alexandria to Gizeh, which was…

  • Canalization

    After leaving Aqaba, we went from one gulf into another around the corner of the Sinai peninsula, up to Suez! We arrived there in the night and we had to wait for our convoy to gather, because the suez-canal is a one-way canal. And we were happy to get the convoy during daylight 🙂 So…

  • Journey to the past

    Today we had one of those famous crew-tours again. This time, we went to an old old town, in this part of the holy land, which is today known as Jordan. The city we visited was (and is still called) Petra. But, as you might know, Petra has no harbor, so we left our mighty…

  • A short visit to Safaga, Egypt

    On our route through the red sea towards the Mediterranean sea, we made a quick stop in Safaga, a really little town in Egypt. There is not much to say, and there was not much to see, touristically. But, it was the most dirty town I have ever visited. It felt like we were landed…