Egypt

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to visit Egypt. Learning about Ancient Egypt was always one of the first lessons in history class, and it always intrigued me how advanced they were as a society so long ago. In many ways, they were much more advanced than today’s society.

Ever since 2011, safety had always been a concern when traveling to Egypt and frankly, kept it off my radar for a long time.

Where to Begin?

I have been putting off this lifelong wish to visit Egypt long enough almost entirely due to safety concerns. What was probably the first country I ever wanted to travel to outside the US, Egypt ended up being my 66th. After the toppling of Mubarak in 2010 and the instability after with Morsi’s short-lived rule, safety was rightfully a concern. After spending 10 days in Egypt, now I would have less than 10% concern regarding safety- for comparison, I would even have 5% concern when walking through NYC during the day. Everything feels safe in Egypt, in fact, after a few days my concerns of safety quickly gave way to being annoyed by all the extremely pushing vendors, probably the most pushy in the world.

Arrival in Cairo/Giza

Upon arrival in at the Cairo airport, I was a bit nervous. Leaving the relative comforts and perceived safety of Jordan and Israel, finally I had arrived in Egypt. The process in the airport was extremely smooth. I chose to book a hotel that was nearby the Pyramids as I wanted quick access to them multiple times during the day for photos and such. I had read and heard from multiple sources not to take a taxi in Cairo, to use Uber or pre-arranged pickup as the taxi's take you for a ride.

Valley of the Kings

Regardless of whether you are an amateur, enthusiast or pro, the one common denominator you need for shooting wildlife is a camera with serious zoom. Whether this is a small compact with 30x zoom, a mirrorless APS-C with 100-400 lens or a full frame Canikon with 300mm F2 bazooka, that will depend on how much you care about photography!
For reference, all of the photos on this page were shot using a Fujifilm X-H1 with 100-400mm Zoom Lens with 1.4x Teleconverter attached.

Temples

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Nara

Look at the prey animals disposition, are they alert, relaxed or running?
Be patient, drive slowly or stay in one spot and use your binoculars to scout the terrain; in a few minutes or not, sometimes animals will emerge from the bush
In Kruger Park, particularly on the main roads, the easiest way to "spot" one of the hard-to-finds will be when you see many cars stopped
In the end, it is all about luck- a group of lions or leopard may have just crossed the road and disappeared into the bush seconds before you rolled by