I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 728.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about camels and temples, tombs and Islamic art,

Falukas and pyramids, as we go to Egypt.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

one of my favorite countries, Egypt. I'd like to welcome the show Sally El Basir from Passport and Plates.com who has come to talk to us

about Egypt. Sally welcome to the show.

Thank you, I'm glad to be here.

Well, I'd like to say that Egypt is one of the few places that makes my short list of when people say,

where in the world was your favorite place to travel.

Egypt is often in the top three or so that I mentioned, but I haven't been there since 2010

so I didn't want to do an episode. So so glad that I found somebody who knows more about it than I do, but Sally, what is your connection to Egypt?

Yeah, so I'm actually part Egyptian and that's where Sally comes from I assume.

Yeah, so it's funny actually because I was born in Ireland and my parents wanted a name that

anyone could pronounce regardless of what they spoke so that's how I ended up with the name

Sally but my mom's Egyptian and so I try to go back and visit family once a year or so so that's kind of how I ended up just learning a lot about what the cool things to do are in Egypt.

Excellent. And why should someone go to Egypt?

I think anybody who has ever studied history in the world is fascinated by the ancient Egyptians, right? I mean, I think it's a bucketless place for many people and you don't need a lot of convincing

to go there.

But I have to add that Egypt is really a country that has something for everyone and I think a lot of people

don't know that.

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