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Teeing Off With the Pharaohs

Where: Egypt

10/04/2006 at 9:39 AM
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Can we possibly give you any more reasons to travel to Egypt? Okay, the odd attack on tourists and the necessity of traveling around in police-surrounded cavalcades could put you off a bit, but if you look past the security hassles, Egypt seems to really have everything. Including, somewhat surprisingly for a big desert, golf courses.

The Fly Golf company--specializing in golf tours of Egypt, something we would have considered a real niche market--markets itself with the touching slogan "Take off, tee off, we care." And their website visually confirms the unexpected: they really do have greens in Egypt. Five golf courses surround Cairo, more can be found near Luxor, and they're starting to spring up along the Red Sea. So when you're planning your next golfing holiday, think desert, sea and golf greens--they care.

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· Golfing After Midnight [Jaunted]
· The Very Blue Red Sea [Jaunted]

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Golfing After Midnight

Where: Norway

8/08/2005 at 1:37 PM
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The Sunday travel section in the NY Times has a great piece on golfing after midnight in Northern Norway.

I was 95 miles above the Arctic Circle and exhausted. But the midnight sun was out, the temperature was a soothing 60 degrees, and a lush golf course was at my disposal, so why sleep?
Sure it is just a nine-hole hack course of just 2,172 yards--a par 31, with four par-4's and five par-3's.

However, if midnight golf is what you are after, you do have choices.  

Lofoten is the nine hole course, while Trondheim Golfklubb is a more traditional eighteen hole course, which holds a yearly tournament.

Grab your sticks and a couple Red Bulls and enjoy the phenomenon.

[Photo Credit NY Times]

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