Name: Erg Chebbi desert circuit
Brand: Audley Travel
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Price: 2914 USD
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I visit Cairo in 2012 and again this year (2015) and had the benefit of Ada Vegas Travel insight and hospitality. We saw some amazing places and she provided great insight. More depth if asked, less time spent in places if interests were higher for other sites.

Ada Vegas Travel

Egypt Highlights

It was an amazing experience and would highly recommend Look at Egypt to anyone wanting to visit Egypt. We had the best tour guide ever who was very insightful and full of humour. I personally enjoyed the passion he has for his 
Country and his job.

Look at Egypt

Tour Package to Cairo and Luxor

Memphis Tours

Africa Adventure Vacations

Morocco Private Expert

National Geographic Expeditions

Basecamp Explorer

Expect In Africa Safari

Audley Travel

Jakada Tours

Rothschild Safaris

Wilderness Travel

We had an amazing trip with Africa adventure vacations. We loved the guide Ceasar and communication with Robert and Ashiraf was outstanding.

The ultimate goal for this safari was chimp and gorilla tracking but also a wildlife safari in Murchison falls, queen Elizabeth and lake mburo national park was rewarding. If are to book this safari, please don't miss out the night game drives.

The lodges are super nice and blend with nature. Buffalo safari lodge was outstanding, the views, food and service was unmatched.

In short, we didn't regret booking with AAV

10 Days Uganda Wildlife Safari With Mountain Gorilla Trekking Tour

Our 10 days safari was amazing! Our guide Ceasar was just amazing (best guide ever!), thanks to him, we saw the big 5 and great primates. The experience was unforgettable.

Communication with Robert was so easy and always keen to answer any questions regardless of the time.

We highly recommend Africa Adventure Vacations, they are professional and we could not have expected better for our trip.

My husband, another couple, and I hired Noura Kassimi to be our guide for eleven days in Morocco in April of 2018.  We had an incredible trip!  Noura is an accomplished guide and has excellent English.  She showed us as many of the important sites in Morocco as possible in eleven days.  Noura educated us well about the culture, religion, politics and health care systems.  We learned so much on this trip!  

Noura met us at the airbnb where we were staying.  Along with her driver and very comfortable van, Noura kept us entertained and comfortable.  She was always patient and understanding of our needs, even when that included trying to find a pharmacy open on a Saturday as one of us was unwell.  She helped us to feel safe and free of worries.  Noura gave us great recommendations for comfortable housing and good restaurants.

Prior to our tour, we had read a statement where a reviewer had written they "felt they had a PhD. in Moroccan culture, religion, and life" following their tour with Noura.  We felt the same!  We highly recommend Noura Kassimi and a trip to Morocco.  It is a country full of welcoming, cordial people and interesting sites.

In April of 2018 we enjoyed the Big Tour of Morocco.

Morocco big tour

Noura is an exceptional person and a wonderful, wonderful guide to her country.  Thanks to her I had unique experiences like seeing a school classroom, an animal shelter, cooking class and so very much more,   I recommend her services to anyone traveling in Morocco.

Wonderful Morocco shown by a wonderful guide

What a privilege it was for my family and me to experience Marrakech with Noura as our guide. She developed and coordinated a thoughtful itinerary for our 6 day visit, and then adapted throughout the week as we rearranged our plans. Throughout our time together, she provided informative background on the history of the sites we visited. It was a perfect combination of planned at activities and "go with the flow" spontaneity -- the essence of what a discovery vacation is about.

Marrakech is Memorable - Noura made it Unforgettable!

Firstly, it was my understanding, and confirmed in a phone conversation with the company’s representative prior to our departure, that the schedule of events would go at our pace. We found this to not be the case. For example; we arrived in Cairo on October 25th, from Tel Aviv, Israel, later in the night than scheduled due to an airline delay. We were met at the airport by your representative and taken to a hotel 45 minutes from the airport. We checked in shortly after midnight. The representative said that we would “meet at 4:00” to be picked up to fly to Luxor. I thought he meant 4:00 PM, but no, it was 4:00 AM!!! We had less than 3 hours sleep before we were whisked off to our next destination. (By the way, the representative spent those few hours waiting in the hotel lobby; he didn’t even get a night’s rest.) 

We arrived in Luxor, were taken to the hotel, deposited our luggage (the room wasn’t ready), had breakfast, and then met our tour guide at 10:00 AM for our first tour. We were exhausted, but mustered our energy for the occasion. 

Is there a good reason why Cairo wasn’t the first city on our tour? In retrospect, it should have been for many reasons, not the least of which was the logistics described above. 

All right, so now we’re in Luxor, and by afternoon we’re ensconced in a luxurious hotel with a magnificent view of the Nile River. There’s a swimming pool that we’re looking forward to relaxing by the next day during some much needed down time during the free time described in the itinerary; exactly what we expected from National Geographic. But instead, that evening we were told by our guide that we needed to have our luggage ready to check out of the hotel the next morning to relocate to the Nile River ship Minerva (coincidentally, owned by the same company as the hotel). We obliged, and in the morning we were taken on a tour with the luggage in the car, and then brought to the ship in the early afternoon. Our four suitcases were put in a room that was barely large enough to contain the bed, but the view of the river from our room was good enough to overlook this inconvenience, at least for the moment. I looked forward to resting in our cabin in the afternoon because I was exhausted. In fact, I was so tired that I have little recollection of that morning’s tour until I look at the photos to affirm that I was actually where the itinerary said I would be. 

We went to lunch in the ship’s dining room and returned to our cabin to find that our view of the Nile was obliterated by a ship that had tied up alongside our own. This is now our view (see photo) and the blackout drapes that were drawn to hide it made the small cabin a crowded, dark dungeon.

Furthermore, that ship’s bunker oil fumes were now in the air conditioning system of our ship and flowing freely into our cabin making me nauseous and giving me a headache. I complained but there was nothing to do about it. 

And if this wasn’t bad enough, the sound of the neighboring ship that accompanied the smell was intolerable. 

Other issues I had with our cabin on the ship included;
- The bypass closet door wouldn’t stay shut
- There was a leak under the bathroom sink
- The carpet in the area near the bathroom was wet
- The toilet seat lid came off repeatedly
- Wifi on board the ship was only in the main lobby area, and was poor at best

I talked to the ship’s desk clerk, and he assured me that things would be taken care of shortly. They never were.

This doesn’t take into consideration that the buffet style food served on board was repetitive if you didn’t take the offered main course, which was usually meat (I don’t eat meat). 

Oh, and I didn’t yet mention that our ship wouldn’t be leaving its mooring until the next day! We had traded a luxurious hotel for this! 

With that said, it begs the question of why we were taken out of a luxurious hotel 24 hours in advance of the ship sailing away from Luxor? No pool to sit by, no view of the sunset over the banks of the Nile, no quiet room in which to sleep, and no dinner of delicious food. Certainly not what we expected from a Nat Geo Private Tour for which we had paid a premium price! 

Unrelated to these issues, NatGeo’s survey asked if we felt that our health was well-protected. “No” is the short answer. A fuller reply is that we both got Covid on this trip; my husband first, then inevitably, myself three days later. We had avoided catching it for more than 2.6 years, and now we had it. I realize that one takes risks when going out in the world, and I certainly don’t blame NatGeo for our getting sick. But their people weren’t wearing masks until I asked them to, mostly to protect themselves from us. One agent who met us at the airport when we arrived back in Cairo from Aswan, now openly sick with Covid, disappeared for 10 minutes to purchase a mask when I told him in no uncertain terms that he needed to wear one around us. 

Overall, NatGeo profited from our illness as we were too unwell to utilize the dining allowance at the Cairo Ritz Carlton or to go to out for most meals offered with our guide. The one restaurant I was taken to for dinner without my husband was a touristy place with fake grapes leaves hanging from fake arbors. When a 35 person tour group trouped in past us it told me all I needed to know. My bowl of pasta with a tomato sauce not much thicker than tomato juice certainly couldn’t have cost more than $10, if that much. Then, the next day I was too sick to go out at all, my husband, who was feeling better by then, went out alone with the tour guide for the day, but it’s my understanding that they skipped all meals. 

All in all, there were many aspects of the trip that were memorable for all the right reasons, but also memorable for the above mentioned wrong reasons. For us to have paid as much as we did begs the question, “Was it worth the expense for this private tour experience?” As seasoned world travelers, I’m hard pressed to reply in the affirmative.

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