Oasis Overland: royandjodie's recommendation

Last summer my Fiance and I toured Egypt, Jordan & Syria on the Oasis Overland Nomad tour and it was one of our favourite travel experiences. There were only 2 other girls in our tour (English & Trinidadian) and my Fiance and I (both Aussie, the worldcup was on at the same time so the group was quite small. We started in Cairo where we got to visit the Egyptian Museum and the amazing Pyramids. We then travelled on an overnight train (definitely an experience in itself) to Aswan where we visited the amazing Temple of Ramses and embarked on what was hands down our favourite part of the trip and a must do if you're in Egypt...the Feluka.

We spent 2 relaxing nights sailing down the nile on a traditional Egyptian Sail boat, our crew prepared delicious food for us each day and entertained us at night and each morning we woke up to the sun rising across the Nile...life doesn't get much better than that!

Other highlights of the trip were a vist to an Orphanage in Luxor and other members of the group said they experienced some great diving in the 4 days we were in Dahab. We don't dive but we did climb to the top of Mt Sinai to watch the sunrise which was a huge acheivement.

It was then onto Jordan for a few days where on our first night we camped in the middle of the Desert, the second night on the top of Mt Nebo, and we also got to see the ancient city of Petra and swam (or floated) in the Dead Sea.

We ended our tour a day early as we had other travel plans so we only got one day in Syria but it was good to experience another country. Overall it was a fantastic trip and I would recommend this tour to anyone!     

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