Country Info
- Cairo
- Capital
- Egyptian Pound (EGP)
- Currency
- 69,536,644
- Population
- EG
- Country Code
Cairo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cairo, Egypt
Exploring the Pyramids of Cairo
This is a top pick! ... quickly got over the fact that half our blood was missing because today we were off to see the Great Pyramids. Why else go to Egypt. So we got some breakfast at the Hostel/Hotel consisting of Cheese, Bread, Coffee and Tea for Andrea of course. We headed ...
Arriving heatrow airport i said my ...
This is a top pick! ... !!" Wayne couldn't make it. I think he was too busy watching his star trek videos. 4 Hours after leaving England I arrived at Cairo airport, and from the moment I stepped off the plane it was chaos. I was standing by the conveyor belt waiting for my ...
Mallorca-BCN-CAI
This is a top pick! ... . From the moment I reached Nasser on Skype he has been so accommodating and is responsible for whatever experience I have in Cairo. It was a little nerve racking trying to reach him on Friday about the flight change because he wasn’t using email, ...
Egyptian Museum and Train to Luxor
This is a top pick! ... piece and it even had flat screens showing how the excavation had been done and by whom. You would think that the Cairo museum holding the artifacts of Tutankhamen and a national symbol for all tourists visiting Egypt would be updated to at least modern ...
Sahara Race 2008
This is a top pick! Cairo, the host city of the Sahara Race (Egypt) is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into two branches into the low-lying ...
Dubai to Cairo
This is a top pick! ... of course started to chat with the driver - only to learn that he was Egyptian! So we started to pester him with questions about Cairo and Egypt, and we wrote down about 2 pages of notes from his info. When we told him where our hotel was in Cairo, he ...
Cairo 1st in the evening of new years day ...
This is a top pick! ... , who was Bob Dylan anyway and did the Queen kill Princess Diana. Strange evening, though pretty entertaining in the end. 4th Cairo Museum! Early start to try and beat the tour groups. Was positioned outside the gates at 7:30 for 9am opening like ...
11th last day in cairo thankfully i have to ...
This is a top pick! ... had em. 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 ...
Hello world birthday yesterday (9th) - ...
This is a top pick! hello world Birthday yesterday (9th) - intention was to visit Pyramids at Giza early doors... but slept in past my alarm clock. Very bad. Anyway, by the time I awoke I couldn't be bothered going anywhere (being old and decrepit now at 26). Faffed ...
27th cairo arrived back in town last night ...
This is a top pick! ... a couple of days in a sanitary environment where disinfectant is used regularly, i can confirm that the rest of Egypt (and Cairo in particular) positively HONKS. Hogmanay!! Still feeling pretty crappy after foodpoisioning episode so took it easy and ...
Hello all now sans beard after visit to ...
This is a top pick! ... best obviously. ok, can't remember what i wrote the last time i updated this thing, but i haven;t been doing much in Cairo, just recharging my batteries and sitting in tea shops reading and getting stared at which is a bit unnerving. The people ...
Islamic Cairo, Bazaar & The Dirty Bird
... your whitey’s here!" So while I do not believe it is required by any means to have a guide at many sites to experience anything more out of Egypt… having a guide may ensure you do not think less of Egypt from negative ...
Ayoh wheyoh ayoh wheyoh...
... to capture everything since Paris as well as I can... for now I'm not going to be posting photos of Egypt so this will have to do. Getting myself to Cairo At 7:25pm I was set to leave Paris for Athens, and then switch planes to arrive in Cairo at ...
closure
... baksheesh to taxi drivers because we are foreigners? I don't know, but we're about to find out. Start: Hotel Longchamps, Cairo, EGYPT. End: Hotel Longchamps, Cairo, EGYPT. Distance Traveled: 0km Road Conditions: - Temperature: sticky ...
Sangria
This is one of our last nice dinners as a group. The restaurant is on the Egypt of the Nile. I also included a picture of the sunset in Cairo from our ...
Alice goes Boom, Boom, Boom
... group and enjoyed the light show in the sky and the silence that covers the desert. Unforgettable Our last day in Egypt, unfortunately, was miserable. We got up early to go through the process of leaving accross the Red Sea on a ...
3.01 - Cairo, Egpyt
We are now in full-on tourist mode. I've always wanted to go to Egypt. I thought that the pyramids would be awesome. I was half right. The pyramids are pretty awesome -- the pictures here don't capture how monstrous they really ...
Unfortunatley the end.
Well we are home now, the last two days of the cruise were nice and relaxing, I was a little sick so didnt do a great deal, caught up on sleep. Franchesca gave the guitar hero a work out. The last 2 shows on the ship were great, one was Elements a mix of ...
Cairo is crazy!
... quite a conservative culture! I on the other hand listened to my Mp3 player on loop for the 6 hours. When we arrived in Cairo things got a bit interesting... We got dropped off at a bus station which we thought would be close to our hotel but the ...
Day one in Egypt
Today basically all we did was get to Egypt. Our flight left around 11am which was nice. It meant we didn't have to get up early. The security at the airport was nothing like it was when we went to Israel. In fact, it didn't even seem like an ...
Yep, Cairo
... to Cairo with my friend Ahmad, a recovering Heroine-addict who is now an hotel manager in Sinai. Through him I got a glimpse into Cairo’s drug scene. Hashish usage here is as common as alcohol in the USA. Almost everyone I met here admitted to be ...
A Scam, KFC and the Khan-el-Khalili
... this a enjoyable place to have lunch. The address is Kentucky Fried Chicken Community Care Restaurant. 9, Sadd El-Aly St., Dokki, Cairo, between Al-Galaa Square (Sheraton Cairo Hotel) and Fini Square. We were not off to the Khan-el-Khalili to ...
Cairo Days 2 -3
Day 1: Tour of the Pyramids at Giza, Sphinx, Memphis and Saqqara! AWESOME! Day 2: Cruised around the massive Khan El Khalili Bazaar, Mohamed Ali Mosque, and Salah El Din Citadel, and Pyramids Sound and Light ...
Date time in Cairo with my Habibi
... ; They can play dumb, simply because you are dumb (when it comes to the language). Standing 187 meters tall, Cairo tower is Egypt’s tallest building. We lucked out with no bathroom attendants being present to guard the toilet paper in ...
Retour au Caire
La route entre Saqqara et le Caire longe un canal deau verdatre et stagnante. Les rives sont envahies de detritus qui tombent lentement dans leau a mesure que dautres les remplacent. Nous profitons de notre derniere soiree pour diner en pleiin air au ...
Khan and more (impressions)
... I live. Found a very bohemian art gallery and a new friend not too far from here. Soccer match between Egypt and Morocco held in Cairo consumed the city for 90 minutes, resulting in no score and disappointed tourists hoping for excitement. Dinner in ...