For years, visiting the pyramids of Giza without a guide was the travel equivalent of juggling knives in traffic: perfectly possible, but maybe not the best decision someone could make. So when I say that in 2026 you should definitely go without one, it makes sense that your internal alarm bells are going off. So […]

If you’ve ever booked a dive trip and thought, “Cool, I paid for the package, I’m done,” only to be emotionally jump-scared by a final bill full of mysterious fees, welcome—you’re among friends. Marsa Alam dive prices are a big question for divers shopping around in Egypt for shore dives. And if you’re considering it, […]

My toxic trait is that I’ll plan an entire international trip around the possibility of seeing one specific animal during during an even more specific window of opportunity. Even if you aren’t irrationally rearranging your PTO around an obscure animal migration (yet), you probably are trying to figure out when a place is at its […]

The scuba diving in Marsa Alam is fantastic, but we both know that the fastest way to ruin a dive trip isn’t currents, sharks, or even the 6am wake-ups—it’s picking the wrong place to stay. And yes, I say this as someone who has rolled the dice on one too many “this looks fine” accommodations […]

There’s one person on every dive boat that starts a spirited debate about where the best diving in the world is—and it’s definitely not wherever you all are now 😅 I’ve heard it debated among everyone from German and Malaysian divers to French, Indonesian, Korean, American, Dutch, Chinese, Australian, and aggressively confident British divers—usually while […]

Ask most people what their plans are while visiting Egypt and you’ll hear exactly what you’d expect: explore the mysterious pyramids, cruise down the Nile, and explore temples, hieroglyphics, and the Valley of Kings from Luxor to Aswan. All incredible, all deservedly famous. But if you happen to fall into the very small, very unhinged […]

Wondering what to wear in the Sahara desert? If you’re heading to Morocco as a woman, your packing list matters. It’s the difference between a comfortable, relaxed trip and accidentally mooning a shocked indigenous man while clinging to a camel named Bob Marley. Weirdly specific? I saw it happen, and trust me—you don’t want it […]

Imagine you’ve just arrived in Marrakech, Morocco: you’re walking down a narrow cobblestone street dodging wayward roosters, donkey-drawn carts careening down alleyways, and men in long djellabas zipping by on mopeds between red mud buildings draped in mismatched fabric hangings. You pass hole-in-the-wall bread shops with hand-painted boulangerie signs—a reminder of Morocco’s French colonial past—and […]