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Giza Slideshow
Top Hotels in Giza
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Zoser Partner Hotel Giza
123 reviews -
Movenpick Giza
119 reviews -
Le Meridien Pyramids Giza
770 reviews -
Sofitel Sphinx Giza
373 reviews
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Four Seasons Giza
206 reviews -
The Mena House Oberoi Giza
851 reviews -
Safir Hotel Cairo Giza
134 reviews
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Royal Gardens Giza
82 reviews
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Pharaoh Egypt Giza
59 reviews
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Husa Pyramids Hotel Giza
102 reviews
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Sheraton Dreamland Hotel And Conference Center Giza
61 reviews
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Middle East Giza
20 reviews
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Maritim Hotel Pyramids Cairo Giza
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Pyramids View Hotel Giza
30 reviews -
Swiss Inn Nile Giza
52 reviews
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Les 3 Pyramides Giza
3 reviews
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Saint George Hotel Giza
3 reviews
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International Hot Spring Hotel Giza
30 reviews
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Siag Pyramids Giza
48 reviews
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Pharaohs Hotel & Casino Giza
69 reviews
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Cleopatra Giza
9 reviews
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Minamar Hotel Giza
24 reviews
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Nile King Hotel Giza
2 reviews
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Sheraton Royal Gardens Giza
1 review
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The Oasis Giza
283 reviews
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Horizon Pyramids Hotel Giza
91 reviews
Giza
Travel Blogs from Giza, Egypt
Cairo to Alexandria
This is a top pick! ... beautiful. They have really made an effort. There are lots of colorful tile mosaiics and water fountains. As we got further into the town, there are alot of older buildings but it still looks so much cleaner than other places in ...
Pyramids of Giza
This is a top pick! ... a spare card. A bit spooky though as I was taking a photo at the same spot where Kelly's camera stuffed up when we in Egypt last time. The hasslers haven't changed at all but boy does it make a difference being able to speak a few words of ...
Getting into the swing of things
This is a top pick! ... I tagged along on this adventure with a few of my hostel-mates, Willem and Wendy who work and live in Africa on holiday in Egypt. After seeing the limited view we made our way back to the stable and walked to buy many entry tickets (expensive) into ...
Yep, they're pretty big (the Pyramids)
This is a top pick! ... Student Card (my legitimate one from the Uni of New South Wales isn't good enough) we quickly found ourselves on the Giza plateau and coming face to face with the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World - Sphinx and all. Build around 3,000BC ...
Floating through Egypt
This is a top pick! ... "real life". Because of the super efficient tourist infrastructure and security restrictions it is difficult for a Westerner to experience Egypt as anything but a tourist. Please keep this in mind while reading our entries. On Tuesday (which would ...
Dance, not walk, like an Egyptian!
This is a top pick! ... walked off. However, I couldn't help being angry. I really thought I had good control over being angry or impatient, but Egypt has tested all my emotions! We took a creaky old elevator to the 7th floor where we found the happy sign of ...
On the Roof of the Stable
This is a top pick! ... building of the pyramids and the history of the pharoahs. Tears ran down Blink Blink's cheeks as she looked at the pyramids, thinking about fulfilling her lifelong dream, the wonderful time we've had in Egypt, and having to leave Cairo the next ...
The pyramids....without a camel!
This is a top pick! ... I was looking forward to seeing the most on this trip. I told him the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids in Egypt. I've always had a thing for Egypt and it was pretty amazing to be here at last. Our guidebook matter-of-factly mentions ...
PYRAMIDS
This is a top pick! ... and prominent monuments at Giza, the site has actually been a Necropolis almost since the beginning of Pharaonic Egypt. A tomb just on the outskirts of the Giza site dates from the reign of the First Dynast Pharaoh Wadj (Djet), and jar sealings discovered ...
I was a Pharaoh for the day!
This is a top pick! ... around like restaurants or shops like there is now. We then headed to a stable to go horseback riding around the pyramid of Giza. We galloped and had a race, I won of course, because I am the horse master! But the only bad ...
Papyrus Museum and Carpet School
This is a top pick! ... driving by and snapping pictures. The Saqqara pyramid was built for King Zoser, and it is the first pyramid in Egypt, predating the Giza trio and illustrating the progression of pyramid architecture. We had to speed out of Saqqara in a hurry because a ...
The Giza Pyramids and Egyptian Museum
... dedicated to King Tutankhamen. The interesting thing was to see that he is the only King with gold treasures preserved still in Egypt’s possession. Also interesting were the multiple wood coffin huts, four in total, built to fit one inside the ...
Egypt - Country number 14
This is a top pick! ... at was one of the first times I'd cracked a my-god-this-is-stunning smile with a locked gaze since I'd arrived in Egypt. With difficulty I slowly convinced myself to exit the sweat-drying and soul-soothing AC room to visit the mummies chamber. ...
Welcome to Alaska
This is a top pick! ... I packed on this trip were my long twill skirts (see blog entry where I talk about the need for loose clothing on women in Egypt). Oh dear. As I type this, my palms are bruised from gripping the pommel of the camel saddle all day, my biceps are pulled ...
Back to Cairo - in need of pampering!
This is a top pick! ... spotted the bright green and yellow insignia on some trucks. We found it! Or so we thought.....The man at the door of the elusive Egypt Post took one look at our bag and pointed up and across the street. We had no choice but to head that way....his ...
Here are some of the pics from the egypt ...
This is a top pick! Here are some of the pics from the Egypt section of my trip. It was great. From December 2000 - Jan 2001. Unfortunately no pics of New Year Cairo PD Riot Squad action. ...
11th last day in cairo thankfully i have to ...
This is a top pick! ... I am now looking forward to going to India and taking a step up in the civilization stakes! Yeah so that's Cairo pretty much. And Egypt, and the rest of the middle east. Think I've already said my bit and there's no real roundup, it's all open ended so ...
Living the Life of Luxury in Giza!
This is a top pick! 6-19-07 Living the life of luxury in Giza.... This morning we awoke in our luxurious, comfy bed at the Pyramid Park Intercontinental. In the U.S., the hotel itself is probably about the equivalent of a nice Holiday Inn, but this bed is to DIE FOR. I ...
Hello world birthday yesterday (9th) - ...
This is a top pick! ... want to sleep past my 5:45 alarm. 10th Slept past my 5:45 alarm. Got up 6:50 and out the door. Caught a local bus to Giza plateau (25 piastas - less than 5p) instead of taking the luxury liner all the tourists take (2EP - far to expensive, that's my ...
Pyramids
This is a top pick! ... a grey smog blanket hovering just above the city. Look straight ahead and standing before me are nine pyramids, Cheops being the largest in Egypt. As I gazed up up up I wondered how on earth...and then I wondered why on earth? I was a bit annoyed when ...
18th/19th alexandria while looking for an ...
This is a top pick! ... due to it being the end of Ramadan, all the soldiers from the surrounding barracks are going back to their families all over Egypt. And the bus companies in true Egyptian forward-planning have not laid on any additional buses to cover the extra load. It ...
Hello all now sans beard after visit to ...
This is a top pick! hello all, now sans beard after visit to Sweeney Todds on Friday. I got tired of it needing trimmed all the time (quite a task with mini-swiss army knife scissors) so went for a cut-throat job in the barbers round the corner. Unfortunately he also ...
Down a dark shaft and into oblivion
... and you can go in a tomb and a building to see some nice carvings... Third: We hit the tourist hotspot of Giza which was, not so surpirsingly, filled with tourists... We saw the Sphinx and the Pyramids and got offered many things to buy (that's ...
Memphis, El-Sultan Carpet School, Saqqara and Giza
... Islamic Cairo you can see an Egyptian Tourism Police (ETP) riding a camel. These folks are responsible for protecting Egypt's historical sites as well as protecting the numerous tourist who visit these sites everyday. The ETP took on the ...
4 lanes equals 8 lanes
We headed into Central Cairo to the Syrian Embassy today, thank god we took a taxi. To set the scene 4 marked lanes on the road equals at least 8 lanes of traffic.. 6 lanes = 12.. this is no joke.. and it is fast moving. Lybia, our fixer has dropped off ...
The famous place for snorkling...Sharm el Naga!
Hurghada is famous for its sealife! FINALLY we were able to experience the exotic fishes. Even though the weather was windy and the sun hid behind the clouds, the day was fantastic!! We snorkled, collected some seashells....and enjoyed the breathtaking ...
Cairo Traffic
... yet to be experienced. North of Kenya has been hard going the distances are large and the formalities arduous . Just to get into Egypt from Sudan took a total of 5 days. The schedule has taken nearly a 4 week hit so we will be glad to get to ...
Pyramids
Finally made it to the pyramids. It was great but fairly expensive by Egypt standards. We went inside the giant Pyramid. I did not appreciate what heat was until I was in that 6000 year old structure that's filled with dead air. The climb to the main ...