Enrico's Travel Blog

Giza (Cairo), Egypt and the Giza Plateau   Good morning. We have a full day of activities today. The itinerary calls for a 09:00 pickup and ride to the pyramids, and lunch at the 9 Pyramids Lounge on the Giza Plateau with views of the nine pyramids. The Giza Plateau is a large limestone plateau just outside of Giza (Cairo) which has the most recognizable iconic monuments of the ancient civilization. It is located on the west bank of the Nile.   For centuries the people in the

Amman, Jordan > Cairo, Egypt   Travel Day. Fun Fact Time! What was the first city to be called the city of ‘brotherly love”? Turns it was Amman! In the 3rd century BCE, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek ruler of Egypt, conquered Amman (then called Rabbath Ammon). After doing so he renamed the city Philadelphia or “brotherly love” after himself. The idea was to solidify his control over the area and to “Hellenize” it. It remained known as Philadelphia until the 7th century wh

Amman, Jordan   Our first full day in Amman. Amman is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the capital and largest city in Jordan with somewhere between five and six million people. Jordan itself, as a country, is relatively new. The area now known as Jordon became a British protectorate after World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It wasn’t until 1946 that Jordan gained independence and officially became known as the Hashemite Kingdom