So finally, what I had been waiting for over three weeks happened. I got an email, and through iVisa, I managed to score a thirty-day visa for Mongolia. The only thing to be done was to find a ticket to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I had to make sure that I did not need a transit visa as I had to catch a connecting flight from Istanbul, Turkey.

With my return ticket also booked, I did my hotel booking and booked a room at the Ramada Ulaanbaatar. The currency of Mongolia is the Mongolian Tugrik. The value of one rupee equals 41 Mongolian Tugrik. Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with a population of only 3.4 million people. Mongolia is an untouched wonder of natural beauty, deserts, lakes, snow-peaked mountains, and sanctuaries. It is a traveler’s delight. The most famous Mongolian is, of course, Genghis Khan the Great. He was the first ruler of the Mongolian Empire, which ruled from 1202 to 1227. He is credited with forming a massive Mongolian empire, which fought with the Jin Dynasty in China and expanded its power to the Caspian Sea.

The country is a wonder of scenic beauty. Along with the Gobi Desert, the country has great frozen lakes like Lake Khuvgul, which is in Northern Mongolia. It is a very relaxing place, and one can live in a nomadic tent called the Ger and sleep in these tents at night. Amarbayasgalnat Khid is the largest monastery in Mongolia and is a must-see for all travelers. Chandaman Ondor is a tiny village in the region and is a great place for bird watching and hiking.

The Darshan Valley is a very remote and sparsely populated place in Mongolia and is home to the Tastaan tribe. It’s a place where one can meet many Shamans as well.

It is advisable to take the Turkish airline to get to Ulaanbaatar from New Delhi. The ticket is only sixty-three thousand one way. There is a one-stop at the Turkish airport, but if one is not getting out of the airport terminal and just changing flights with less than a day’s layover, one does not need a transit visa, not for Indian passport holders at least.

Mongolia is going to be cold with average weather between 15 degrees to 17 degrees, so it is advisable to carry a good jacket and something warm. As luck would have it, I will be boarding to Mongolia on my birthday itself, the 10th of May. It will be my fiftieth birthday, and that will be very special indeed.

So I am all set for another adventure, this time to Mongolia. Keep reading anujtikku.com and stay tuned for another month-long adventure.

“No doubt, the highlight of my Egypt travels was partying with the local horse carriage drivers and exploring the nightlife of Luxor City. It happened so spontaneously, and that’s why the night was so full of fun, frolic, and exploration.”

“I ventured out of my hotel to take a walk around the sea area. As luck would have it, I was almost kidnapped by two horse carriage drivers; one was a tall gentleman named Hassan, and the other was a short old guy named Ali. It seems that these guys operated together as a twosome. They would look for tourists to ferry them around in their horse carriage and then give them the entire view of the city at night. The two of them spotted me and offered to take me on their horse carriage all around the city. I relented and hopped on to the carriage; soon, we moved into the bylanes of Luxor city and into the poorer part of the town. The duo took me to their home and treated me to beer and some pot.”

“As if inspired by the fun and frolic, I broke into a song from the Amitabh Bachchan classic cult film “Mard” and started singing, ‘Mard Tangewala, main hoon mard tangewala.’ I showed them videos of my acting with Amitabh Bachchan in the movie “Rann,” in which I had acted with him. They were thrilled. I also got a chance to interact with the local street urchins of the city who started treating me like a mini celebrity from India.”

“Shortly after having some beers and pot, the duo decided to take me to an Egyptian belly dancing joint. It was like a local dance bar, with the only difference being that the rather fat and chubby lady on the dance floor was belly dancing. Again, I found this as an opportunity for me to do some filming, so I soon hopped onto the dance floor to join the belly dancer. I shared the spotlight for a while and finally left the floor after being thoroughly exhausted by the vigorous belly dancing. Most men were smoking shisha, which is very popular in this part of the world.”

“We spent most of the night on the horse carriage, moving from marketplaces to the high streets of the city of Luxor. My camera captured the sights and sounds of the city, all the while singing the hit song from the film ‘Mard’.”

“Enjoy the pictures and videos of this special Egypt escapade.”

This is our price list for our trips and services :
⭐SEA TRIPS :
• Submarine 18$
• Dolphin house 30$
• Paradise island 35$
• Orange bay 36$
• Abu Dabbab 100$ ( Marsa Alam )
• Dolphin show 30$
• Photo session with dolphin(10 photos) 40$
• Family photos with dolphin (2 photos maximum) 10$ for each photo
• swimming with dolphin 65$
• Diving 48$ + ( pickup )
• Speed Boat (4 person/ 4hours) 265$
• Private boat full day snorkeling or fishing or both (from 1 to 7 person) 360$
•Private small boat, full day snorkeling or fishing or both (from 1 to 4 persons) 280$

i anuj tikku really enjoy this tour, i seen sharks and this was really awesome for me. Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha and are the sister group to the Batoidea

⭐ DESERT SAFARI :
• Quad Safari 24$ ( 3 hours )
• Quad Safari 30$ ( 5 hours )
• Quad on shore 60$
• Super Safari 36$

⭐Over day Trips :
• Cairo by bus 103$
• Cairo by flight 273$
° Photo session (pyramids area) packages from 64$ to 255$

• Luxor one day Valley of the Queens 98$
• Luxor one day Valley of the Kings 103$
• Luxor private tour 198$

⭐Hurghada Excursions :
• Parasailing single 30$ + (pickup)
• Parasailing double 42$ + (pickup)
• City tour 30$
• Jaz Aquaviva ( aqua park ) 38$
• Horse riding ???? (1h sea / 1h desert????) 48$
• El gouna tour 36$
• Disco “night club” ???? 18$

⭐Services :

•Pickup service (vip transfer) from Airport to hurghada hotels return :
36$ for( 3 persons )
60$ for (4 to 8 persons)

•Pickup service (vip transfer) from Airport to hotel return ( makadi – sahel hasheesh – elgouna ):
48$ for( 3 persons )
85$ for (4 to 8 persons)

• Wifi router 42$ per week + 30$ deposit you get it back when we collect the device ????

some of words by Makarious Emad (Mac)

I come from a poor family. My father works in maintaining stairs, and my mother’s family rejected my father, but my mother loves him. Then, after a period of mating, the two helped each other with money.

After this I was born as the eldest of my sisters. My father did not complete his studies, but he enrolled me in a language school after a struggle with life. My father became the largest calf merchant in Hurghada, and I entered the College of Business Administration. I currently have a travel page and a partner in a kindergarten for children.

The two unremarkable Monsters of Memnon, initially addressing Pharaoh Amenhotep III, rising wonderfully around 18m from the plain, are the principal landmarks vacationers see when they visit the west bank. These glorious giants, each cut from a solitary block of stone and weighing 1000 tons, sat at the eastern access to the funerary sanctuary of Amenophis III, the biggest on the west bank. Egyptologists are right now exhuming the sanctuary and their revelations should be visible behind the monsters.

The monsters were at that point an extraordinary vacation spot during Graeco-Roman times, when the sculptures were credited to Memnon, the incredible African ruler who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan Conflict. The Greeks and Romans thought of it as amazing good fortune to hear the whistling sound produced by the northern sculpture at the crack of dawn, which they accepted to be the call of Memnon welcoming his mom Eos, the goddess of sunrise. She thusly would sob tears of dew for his awkward passing. This was likely because of a break in the goliath’s chest area, which showed up after the 27 BC seismic tremor. As the intensity of the morning sun prepared the dew-doused stone, sand particles would sever and resound inside the breaks in the construction. After Septimus Severus (193-211 Promotion) fixed the sculpture in the third century Advertisement, Memnon’s sad hello was heard no more.

The monsters are simply off the street, before you arrive at the Relics Inspectorate ticket office, and are generally being snapped and shot by a multitude of vacationers. However couple of guests know that these goliath enthroned figures are set before the principal access to a similarly amazing funerary sanctuary, the biggest in Egypt, the remaining parts of which are gradually being exposed.

A few small pieces of the sanctuary that remained behind the monsters remain and more is being revealed now that the unearthing is in progress. Numerous sculptures, among them the immense dyad of Amenhotep III and his better half Tiye that currently overwhelms the focal court of the Egyptian Gallery in Cairo, were subsequently hauled off by different pharaohs, however much actually stays underneath the residue. A stele, likewise now in the Egyptian Historical center, portrays the sanctuary as being worked from ‘white sandstone, with gold all through, a story covered with silver, and entryways covered with electrum’. No gold or silver has yet been found, yet assuming you meander behind the mammoths, you can see the gigantic region covered with sculptures and stone work that had extended lain under the ground.

Among the obligations of any Egyptian ruler was the development of stupendous structure tasks to respect the divine beings and save the memory of their rules forever. These structure projects were not only some gaudy signal with respect to the ruler to mollify the self image however were vital to the establishment and improvement of a bound together state. Building projects guaranteed work for the laborer ranchers during the time of the Nile’s immersion, empowered solidarity through an aggregate exertion, pride in one’s commitment to the undertaking, and gave potential open doors to the declaration of ma’at (congruity/balance), the focal worth of the way of life, through collective – and public – exertion.

In spite of the view so frequently held, the extraordinary landmarks of Egypt were not worked by Hebrew slaves nor by slave work of any sort. Gifted and untalented Egyptian laborers fabricated the castles, sanctuaries, pyramids, landmarks, and raised the monoliths as paid specialists. From the time of the Old Realm of Egypt (c. 2613-2181 BCE) through the New Realm (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE) and, less significantly, from the Third Transitional Period (c. 1069-525) through the Ptolemaic Administration (323-30 BCE) the extraordinary leaders of Egypt made probably the most noteworthy urban areas, sanctuaries, and landmarks on the planet and these were totally made by aggregate Egyptian exertion.

There are numerous instances of these extraordinary landmarks and sanctuaries all through Egypt from the pyramid complex at Giza in the north to the sanctuary at Karnak in the south. Among these, the funeral home sanctuary of Sovereign Hatshepsut (1479-1458 BCE) at Deir el-Bahri stands apart as one of the most amazing.

Since the most old times, Dendera probably had a safe-haven, which was obliterated and revamped a few times; nonetheless, the current complex dates from the late Ptolemaic and Roman time frames. This makes sense of the commonness of a grandly picturesque style, less serious than that of the most established Egyptian sanctuaries, obviously clear in this lithograph, which shows the inside of the first hypostyle room, a wonderful chamber north of 80 feet down, highlighting 18 colossal segments covered with bas-reliefs.

The sanctuaries of Dendera doesn’t include the arch generally present in hallowed Egyptian design; the front of the structure is shaped by a huge construction estimating 139 feet wide by 60 feet high, with six sections on the façade on which a great molding rests. The intercolumniations are involved similarly as the mostly up by boards covered with hieroglyphic texts and bas-reliefs, while the entry opens in the middle, shaping a high, void space more extensive than the nearby ones.

Inside, 18 additional sections stand in three columns; every one of the capitals imitated the highlights of the benefactor goddess of the spot. As it is higher than the remainder of the sanctuary, this hypostyle room, added under Tiberius, somewhat goes about as the missing Arch.

Sanctuaries OF DANDARA
The sanctuary of Dendera, worked by Ptolemy IX SoterII, remains in a tremendous region limited by a mass of air-dried blocks, on the whole destroyed, whose sides are somewhere in the range of 925 and 990 feet in length; on the north and east sides are two brilliant entrances worked during the time of Roman rule. Aside from the extraordinary asylum, a few remarkable landmarks stand in the holy nook. Not a long way from the back façade of the extraordinary sanctuary are the gravely harmed stays of a little safe-haven committed to the introduction of Isis; the enduring reliefs depict Nut, goddess of the sky, conceiving an offspring while at the same time sitting on a stool as per the old nearby custom.

Close by, toward the west, is a profound rectangular empty encased by a limit wall; this is all that remaining parts of the consecrated lake ordinary of every Egyptian safe-haven, where the clerics needed to play out their ceremonial ablutions a few times each day. The most fascinating remaining parts, including a well, a sanatorium dating from the Roman time frame, a Coptic church and two mammisi, one Ptolemaic and the other Roman, are dissipated along the western wall and in the northwest corner of the Sanctuary of Hathor.

MAMMISI(PHARAOHS’ BIRTH Sanctuary)
Mammisi, whose name implies birth sanctuary, are little sanctuaries common of the Early Time frame in which the pharaohs’ youngsters were regarded on the guise of venerating the introduction of the divine beings. Their kids, viewed as on a standard with living divinities, must be brought into the world inside the holy regions of the sanctuary. The main structure of this lord was raised at Dendera by Nectanebo I somewhere in the range of 378 and 360 BC, while the adjoining one was worked by the request for Augustus.

The Sanctuary of Seti in Abydos (300 miles south of Cairo) was built by Seti I and his child, Rameses II. Seti was a pharaoh of Egypt in the Nineteenth Tradition, administering from 1290-1279 BCE. Seti not just opened mines and remade harmed sanctuaries, he likewise proceeded with the development on the hypostyle corridor of Karnak. Ramses II was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Administration and had the second longest reign in Egypt, administering from 1279-1213 BCE. It is to a great extent accepted Seti fabricated the actual sanctuary, while Ramses finished the enrichments, the encompassing yards, and different works.

The sacrosanct city of Abydos was the site of numerous old sanctuaries and was the entombment place for the main rulers of a brought together Egypt. Close by there was likewise a predynastic burial ground with many graves.

The “L” molded Sanctuary of Seti had a porch, different courts and chambers, two arches, as well as seven houses of prayer. The sanctuary is made of white limestone and every church is roofed with level corbelling sections improved with illustrious cartouches and stars. These churches were committed to Seti I, Osiris, Isis, Ptah-Sokar, Nefertem, Ra-Horakhty, Amun, and Horus. Every church was beautified with petitions to every particular god. For instance, the Horus hallowed place had a hawk conveying the timeless image, the shen, painted on the walls.

It is said that Seti’s stone reliefs are probably the best and most point by point in any Egyptian sanctuary found. A couple of prominent pictures in the sanctuary are Seti before Osiris as he pours drinks to the gods and the picture of Ramses and Seti roping a bull.

In a passage in the sanctuary there is an engraving on the wall known as the Abydos Ruler Rundown. This rundown names the main pharaohs, as per Seti. There are a sum of 76 pharaohs on the rundown. It overlooks the names of numerous previous pharaohs who were obviously viewed as ill-conceived by Seti, like Hatshepsut, Akhnaton, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun, and Ay. The rundown is a vital reference for students of history.

The rundown begins with Menes (presumably a similar individual as Narmer) and closes with Seti. Menes was the pioneer behind the Main Administration and administered until his passing at some point around 3000 BCE. Seti controlled during the New Realm until his passing in 1279 BCE. The rundown subsequently records more than 1,600 years of history, despite the fact that for certain exclusions. This Ruler Rundown is one of just ten tracked down in Egypt.

Associated with Seti’s Sanctuary is the Osirion, a perplexing underground chamber associated with the Nile, designed from tremendous blocks of stone. Its date of development and object are still being scrutinized.