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About Jane Akshar
Expertise
I have extensive knowledge of tourism in Egypt, specifically Luxor, and Egyptology in general. I can answer questions on travel, hotels, restaurants as well as about the sites and dealing with the locals. I can tell recommend deserted sites where you are the only tourist, local guides who will take you walking over the hills, reliable drivers, taxis, donkey and camel men, sailing and motor boat captains.
I can answer questions on Egyptology(up to the end of the New Kingdom) as I have been involved with Egyptology for over 40 years and have contacts in the Antiquities department and with many of the Archaeological teams in Luxor.
Experience
I have been coming to Egypt as a tourist since 1979 and moved to live in Luxor in 2003. I love to help people fall in love with Egypt. I guide guests around the sites in Luxor and run a small tourism business renting flats (apartments) to tourists. I am married to an Egyptian and have a bilingual teenage daughter. I write regular feature articles for Tour Egypt and run a News Blog on Luxor.
Organizations
AEITB "Association of Egyptian Travel Businesses on the Internet"
Publications
www.touregypt.net
www.luxornews.net
wikipedia.org/wiki/KV63
www.kv-63.com (photos)
Archaeological Diggings Magazine
The Cultured Traveller
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
The Undoctored Past
Education/Credentials
8 O levels, OND in Science, City and Guilds in Computing, 10 years Egyptology with the University of London Extra Mural Dept
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Egypt - Egypt 2009
Expert: Jane Akshar - 8/29/2008
Question
i Jane I am a woman traveling alone what are your suggestions in regard to safety and recommendations on the least expensive time of the year for airfare bargains also I will be traveling on a shoestring budget can you recommend reasonable Hotel and Tours I will be staying for 3 weeks so I will need a English speaking tour guide and I would like to travel throughout Egypt (transportation)
Thank you
Answer
Just take the normal precautions you would in your home town.
Most airlines seem to have cheap prices in the summer and just before the school holidays will probably be good, June, first 2 weeks of July. If you are on a shoe string and want a guide you are going to have to join other groups. Try www.touregypt.net to get quotes. Also get hold of the Lonely Planet or Rough Guide they have hundreds of suggestions for cheap travel
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