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Cairo, pyramids & sphinx 15-20 Jan 2011
Saturday and Sunday 15th & 16th January Booked into a cheap and cheerful place called the Egyptian Nights Hotel, in downtown Cairo for 2 nights at a bargain total price of £40 for two. So that's £10 each per night. It will be interesting to ...
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Dodging traffic and slum fires in Cairo
... the day, just a nice dinner with some of my traveling buddies at night. My last day in Cairo I was lucky enough to meet up with some old friends. Doris and Katherine from way back in Healesville ...
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The amazing giza pyramids and sphinx
... age of 90, which is incredible considering that the life expectancy for Egyptians is about 70, and is considered to be one of Egypt's greatest and most powerful pharaoh’s. He outlived many of his own children and wives and we saw his mummy at the ...
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Land of the Mummies
... you. In Vietnam most of the traffic is of the two wheel variety which can easily doge you. In Cairo the traffic is mostly cars and huge old buses that are at least 30 years old and refuse to stop regardless of how close they are to hitting ...
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Losing It
... taste subsided replaced with one as sugared as a glass of hot mint tea. And in the labyrinthine alleyways of old Islamic Cairo I found a different city peopled with kindness and warmth. More shockingly I found I was beginning to love Cairo. Cheers! ...
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Cairo
... site in its true magnificence. Remembering my previous visit, it was the exact same, the unremitting sales hassle at tourist sites in Egypt (followed closely by India) continues to be about the worst I have ever experienced. Not to say that it ruins the ...
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Pyramid Schemes, Part II
... suspicious and when I received my ticket I even went to a policeman and asked if it was real. I wasn't like this last week - Cairo had turned me into a distrustful, bitter traveler. I knew that if I wasn't careful this country was going to try to screw ...
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Our first day in Cairo - Mia Mia
Todays highlights included the Dodgy Lift, Cairo Museum and nearly being run over by a bus! After finally getting to sleep at around 2.30am (a bit longer for me as Mum was snoring loudly), we were awoken at 4.47am by the call to prayer. My ...
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Egypt - Awe and Angst!!!
... in the Cats Production 13.Diving in the Red Sea Lowlights: 1.The general disdain/contempt for English speaking Westerners. 2.The bombing in Old Cairo after our first full day in Cairo. This is just a little too close to the action for me. ...
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Cairo
... perfume made from natural ingredients. After A few coffees I made my excuses and headed back to the hotel I visited Old Cairo or Coptic Cairo the next day after catching the metro there, which predates the coming of Islam and once known as Babylon. ...
Old Cairo Map
- Museum of Islamic Arts
- Zamalek (Gezira Island)
- Al-Azhar Park
- Khalil Museum
- Midan Hussein
- Colossus of Ramses II
- Bab al-Azab
- Souk al Fustat
- Papyrus Institute
- Abu Sir Pyramids
- Ramses Statue
- Perfume Factory
- Ahmed Shawki Museum (Karmat Ibn Hani')
- Gayer-Anderson Museum (Bayt al-Kiritliya)
- Wadi Degla
- Kefre, the second pyramid
- St. Mercurius Church (Abu Seifien)
- Egyptian Antiquities Museum
- Chaar-Hachamaim Synagogue
- German Evangelical Church