Devil’s Pool is a natural pool of water that’s situated atop of Victoria Falls, renown for being among the largest waterfalls in the world. Right on the edge of this massive waterfall, a calm pool of water forms. This is known as the Devil’s Pool Victoria Falls. And daring visitors […]
Two Week Itinerary: Egypt on a Budget with Affordable Luxury
Note: This Egypt on a Budget Travel Guide was last updated January 2019. When planning a trip to this bucket list destination, we were determined to pack in all the quintesential stops while still experiencing Egypt on a budget. While planning a two-week Egypt itinerary during the summer low season, […]
Imlil, Morocco: Trekking the Atlas Mountains
Imlil, Morocco, is such a pleasant escape into the Atlas Mountains. Most people traveling to Imlil will be coming from Marrakesh and hence will discover the cooler and more tranquil environment found, in comparison. In Imlil, the heat is gone and so are the touts that often bother travelers in […]
The Best Excursions & Things To Do in Tanzania on an Africa Overland Safari
During our 56-day Oasis Overland Coast-to-Coast trip across Africa, we spent over two weeks roaming around Tanzania. It’s the first nation you spend a considerable amount of time in after departing Nairobi. The country was a blast, as there’s lots of things to do in Tanzania during an overland Africa safari. You’ll […]
Oasis Overland Review: Across Africa – Nairobi to Cape Town
It was an incredible adventure to take an overland trip across Africa, 56 days coast-to-coast from Nairobi to Cape Town. Finding it difficult and costly to pursue such a trip independently, we put our faith with adventure tour operator, Oasis Overland, to pursue this trip. And since returning from this […]
Travel Update Part 2: Where We’re Roaming Around Next!
This is Part 2 of our long overdue travel update. You can see Part 1 here, which recaps the last few months of what has now become a 2.5 year trip around the globe. But let’s move on to the question that we’ve been getting a lot lately… Where in […]
Marrakech to Merzouga Travel Itinerary & Tips to Reach the Sahara Desert
When taking a trip to Morocco, it’s nearly a requirement to make the journey to see the vast sand dunes of the Sahara Desert. It’s such an awesome experience! But those beautiful Sahara Desert dunes are quite the distance from Morocco’s popular travel hubs such as Marrakech and Fez. The […]
Top 20 Travel Experiences of 2015
This unprecedented second year of non-stop travel has brought us roaming around six different continents and 27 different countries for a total of over 65,000 miles while completely circumnavigating the globe. We’re often asked about our favorite places, which is difficult to pin down because each country we visit has […]
Our Top 20 Worst Travel Moments of 2015
The end of 2015 also marked the end of our second very full year of travel. What a year it’s been! We managed to accomplish our goal of circumnavigating the globe. Throughout that journey we traveled across six continents while having some great experiences on each of them! But when […]
Not-So-Monthly Travel Update: From Middle East to Middle Europe
As we’re about to disconnect from stable Internet for nearly the next month, we figured that now would be a most opportune time to give a quick travel update since our last not-so-monthly update from back in August having just left the Philippines! Now we’ve been roaming around the world on this non-stop […]
An Amazing Nile River Cruise: Luxor to Aswan Egypt
Our recent Nile River cruise on the M/S Amarco II has been our most enjoyable experience in Egypt so far and one of the nicest excursions we’ve taken in some time. During this 4-night Nile River cruise from Luxor to Aswan, we were quite the shutterbugs, managing to take over […]
Egypt’s Modern Day Ruins: The Nile River Cruises of Yesteryear
This is a different glimpse at Nile River cruising and the current state of tourism along the famed river. Nile River trips have been a fairly common touristic voyage, which visit many of Egypt’s ancient temples along the way. In fact, there are more than 350 river cruise boats ready to ply the […]
Beers Around Morocco
Beer in Morocco In keeping up with our tradition of reviewing the beers around the countries we’ve visited, I am reluctantly posting this review of beer around Morocco. I say “reluctantly” because Morocco has been the worst of the 25 countries we’ve visited so far this year, but this is […]
The Barbary Apes of Azrou Morocco
Introducing Azrou Of course, you’ve heard of Casablanca. And perhaps you’ve even visited Marrakech or Fez. But Azrou, Morocco? What the heck is there? We stopped in for a few days to find out. Only about an hour away from busy Fez and Meknes is the calm and tranquil village of […]
Sandstorm and Sandboarding: Our Camel Trek into the Sahara Desert (Erg Chebbi)
We had arrived midday to a riad in the village of Merzouga on the edge of a stretch of the Sahara known as Erg Chebbi. It was too hot for the camels to head out any earlier so our host, Omar, fixed us up some lunch and allowed us to […]