Country Info
- Cairo
- Capital
- Egyptian Pound (EGP)
- Currency
- 69,536,644
- Population
- EG
- Country Code
Egypt Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Egypt
Our first day in Cairo - Mia Mia
This is a top pick! ... two or three deep on each side of the road with only enough room for one car to drive through. Somehow in Egypt, they fit two cars and pedestrians in this space. It always involves alot of tooting and sometimes reversing. We are ...
Saturday, must be chill out day
This is a top pick! Chill out day today, seen enough temples for now, after all, need to save something for a later trip. Just lounged about the pool, let that old nuclear ball in the sky do its magic, another hazy day, saw clouds for the first time, we have a ...
Egypt - Awe and Angst!!!
This is a top pick! ... Christian Histories related to the Apostles John and Paul. Apparently it was the apostle Mark that was instrumental in the conversion of Egypt to Christianity. I did not know that. :) So much I don't know. That first night as we were lounging in ...
Crossing the Red Sea
This is a top pick! ... carts piled high with boxes and luggage, and putting our bags through a scanner and metal detector that didn't work. Out into Egypt, we sat for awhile waiting for our mini bus to fill. But we were highly entertained by men piling luggage on ...
4am Wednesday 28th November
This is a top pick! just one thing to say after waking up so early, Where's the coffee? The minibus from Karnak travel picked us up from the hotel lobby, took us to the Corniche, where we boarded a small motor boat, which took us to the West Bank, having a spot more coffee ...
Kitchener Island
This is a top pick! we arrived back at the Ruby, just in time for lunch. I had been speaking to Johanna, mentioning that we planned to go to kitchener Island, he said he was willing to arrange a boat to take us there, the motor boat was dirt cheap, 40 le for the return ...
Riots for Revolution? 28-31 Jan 2011
This is a top pick! ... have run out of petrol, so he had to turn back to Hurghada. The petrol stations are charging a fortune for fuel. Egypt Airlines is cancelling its flights to Cairo tomorrow as well as train services. Ordinary people are mobilising together again the ...
Dendera another small cruise
This is a top pick! Another early rise, almost starting to get used to it, at least the breakfasts have started in the hotel. Karnak Travels rep was waiting for us in the hotel lobby, jumped into the mini bus for a two minute ride to the Iberotel Hotel, where the boat Le ...
Cairo
This is a top pick! ... an hour wandering around the three main Pyramids before I headed back to the Great Pyramid of Khufu the oldest and largest in Egypt. I ended up climbing inside this one, up through the step central chamber, scrambling up to a central room that had an old ...
Thou Shalt Not...
This is a top pick! …‘walk on thy foot that is broke’ …‘drop thy camera lens from 12 feet’ …‘stand at the top of the mount without warm clothing’ So many commandments I didn’t know about and broke today! Today we ...
Back home at the Canadian Hostel...eh!
This is a top pick! Uneventful plane ride to Cairo this afternoon. Said final goodbyes to a Turkish guy that I had been spending time with each time I was in Istanbul. Hard to bridge those vast cultural divides and expectations... Huge haze over Cairo as we ...
Sinai Paradise
This is a top pick! Left Mt. Sinai early am to travel via van to Nuwieba on the Red Sea. Our drive took us through multiple security checkpoints along the road. Soldiers with guns, diversions placed in the road so that you had to move slowly around to get ...
More Temples and it is still hot!!!
This is a top pick! Reluctantly got off the fellucca...wondering why there cant be a 15 day intrepid fellucca tour?? Anyway...Wandered through the Karnak Temple in the early pm then a bit of poolside relaxing then a walk with the group past the illuminated ...
Egyption Lover Baby....
This is a top pick! ... history (compliments of my new friend, Rohini's, blog except for the bit Ý added ýn italýcs): Started with Ancient Egypt, then the Persians invaded, then Alexander the Greek invaded and kicked out the Persians.The famous movie Cleopatara which ...
A Lesson on How to be Remembered
This is a top pick! ... We had to backtrack to see it again. It was fairly big, if they had finished it it would have been the largest in Egypt. After crossing back though the cemetery, we visited the Nubian Museum, before heading back into the town through the tourist ...
Memphis-Hard to believe it was once the capital!
This is a top pick! Memphis was previously the capital of ancient Egypt, however it is difficult to believe it now. It is a rural farming town and very poor. Not much there. Memphis was the capital froml 1700BC, then El Liisht from 1500BC, then Thebes (Luxor) from ...
Alexandria
This is a top pick! Alexandria is different to the other parts of Egypt we have visited. The Greek and Italian influence can be seen in the people and they speak with a different accent to other parts of Egypt. It is not as English friendly. The people seem to ...
Light Hearts and the Valley of the Kings
This is a top pick! ... in Caanan, just beginning to settle their land. Babylonia and the Persian Assyrians were in decline or developing. Egypt was the most advanced civilization and therefore had the most advanced burials for their dead rulers. I descended into ...
Fellucca bliss!
This is a top pick! Moved onto our fabulous fellucca mid morning for the sail on the Nile to Luxor...two night of bliss! Immediately got very busy doing nothing and remained in that state for most of the duration of the trip. Played some highly competitive games ...
Octopus' Garden in the Shade
This is a top pick! Brian has turned into ‘Scuba Man’. Shaving the beard to make sure his mask seals without problems he finished his Open Water course with flying colours and is onto his Advanced Dives. It seems as though he’s found a new ...
Our Final Day in Egypt
This is a top pick! ... internet at the hotel) and she gave me a cuddle farewell. She gave me a postcard wishing my the best and my return to Egypt. I took a photo of her and she even offerred to take off her head scarf and have a photo taken showing her hair (which ...
Red Sea to Mt Sinai
This is a top pick! ... minutes when I ran into an American doctor and started up a conversation. She told me about her volunteer work in Jordon and Egypt and also her experience during the Dahab bombings in April. She described how the night before the bombings she had a ...
Water
This is a top pick! ... the lake, limiting the life of the dam. Water-use divided between Nile River countries favors the militarily-strong Egypt, who threatens a fight if upstream countries try to use more water than Egypt thinks they should. Along the Nile, ...
Back to Cairo
This is a top pick! Arrived back from the desert to Cairo and spent the final group evening on a Nile Cruise eating buffet and watching hardly even mediocre belly dancing....yes, I have now officially given up on actually seeing proper bellydancing. Said ...
Valley of the Kings
This is a top pick! ... second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be the last great New Kingdom king to wield any substantial authority over Egypt. He was the son of Setnakht and Queen Tiy-merenese. Ramesses III is believed to have reigned from March 1186 to ...
Getting very, very comfortable in Dahab
This is a top pick! Wow, I am really getting out of my blogging routine here. Not only am I tempted to break my post streak, I don't even feel uploading the pictures (that I have not gotten around to taking). I should snap some ...
Back on board
This is a top pick! Saturday, excellent, a rest day, just lounging about on the sundeck, drink a few cocktails, watch the world go by, I love watching people work, I could do it all day. One thing though, must watch how much sun to take, it can be a bit deceptive, with a ...
Sunday, it must be Luxor
This is a top pick! Sunday morning, rather uncomfortable night for us on board, very noisy in the cabin, some ceiling panel was vibrating, didn't catch much sleep until we docked outside the Winter Palace at 1am. WOW; what a bummer, after breakfast returned to ...
Monday, time to leave the Ruby
This is a top pick! ... for the coming week, Karnak travel, seems to just have the edge on Jolleys price wise, they say they are a subsidiary of Egypt air, everything comes with insurance, the balloon trip costs 45 euros, it beat jolleys price, they also give you a certificate ...
Final thoughts on Egypt
This is a top pick! ... really miss it. I am just going to jot down a few things that contributed to my having a successful trip in Egypt without suffering from dysentary, getting kidnapped or big-timed scammed. A lot of credit goes to Egypt and the Egyptian people ...