Country Info
- Cairo
- Capital
- Egyptian Pound (EGP)
- Currency
- 69,536,644
- Population
- EG
- Country Code
Cairo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cairo, Egypt
Random thoughts on Egypt
... I wanted, go at my own pace, and I was able to get to know my guides on a very personal level. I learned more about Egypt from the personal conversations with my guides than any guidebook or art history speech could've given me. Had I been in a large ...
The Hash
... here are typically gross...flooded, without TP, and smelling terrible. If half as many people cleaned bathrooms (or Cairo in general) instead of demanding baksheesh from tourists, things would be much cleaner. It doesn't help that people wash ...
New apartment
Finally slept in my new apartment last night. While Ben's couch was pretty cozy, it's great to have my own place. It's a VERY nice apartment (everything works!) and the rent is acceptable, though not great. My flatmate, moving in soon, is a ...
Sweet Sweet Cairo: Church/Mosque Edition
... ups are takin their toll. Got the knock on our door only to sit in our cramped rooms for another 2 hrs, finally reaching Cairo. Upon daybreak, the group set off to see the religious trifecta: church, synagogue, and mosque. Please enjoy the attached ...
Happy Birthday to me!
So as my friend Mike has nicely put it, "Happy first Birthday in Egypt". It was an interesting birthday to say the least. My day started off crap-tacular with a few parents coming in to school and making mountains out of mole hills and generally setting a ...
Egypt
... armies on the East bank of the Nile during a siege of the Fortress of Babylon. Al-Fustat (Arabic for "camp" or "tent"), Cairo's first and oldest quarter, was built on the site where the Arabs camped during the siege. I stayed in the Cosmopolitan Hotel ...
Pyramids and Museum
... Rosetta stone which is what they used to translate hieroglyphics. The Palette of Narmer shows the unification of upper and lower Egypt. It's really thin which impressed me. There was a huge stone carved with hieroglyphics by Merneptah. He was the ...
Museums and Mosques and Churches...oh my!
It's nearly midnight, almost the latest we have stayed up since joining the tour! I am sitting in our corner suite a the Ramses Hilton listening to Egyptian music blaring up from the ground floor restaurant/live entertainment and the beeps of the cars ...
No Roofs in Cairo
... encroaching urbanization threaten the sanctity of the Pyramids. Like in much of the country, the problems of modern Egypt obscure its prior achievements, literally and figuratively. For the millennium celebration, the Egyptians tried using helicopters to ...
Walk Like An Egyptian...pretend you're Cleopatra!
I flew from Larnaca, Cyprus into Cairo, Egypt on Thursday night. With the group of 11 of us, we were picked up by our hostel, Arabian Nights, and taken back to there. Ahmed, our driver and event planner for the weekend got us all settled. ...
Walk Like An Egyptian
... by you as close as possible. Now we get to run and walk like an Egyptian. Here is another difference between Egypt and Cairo. We are finding out quickly that Egyptians are adept at the bait and switch game. They say one thing and do ...
Back to Cairo
This morning we took our flight back to Cairo. We then went to the the fascinating Bazaar Khan El Khalily and the opportunity for some last minute bargain ...
Gaza - Cairo
... that I ama physics ``professor'' at the Technion in Haifa. Some of them are going tovisit relatives living in Egypt and some are studying in Cairo. We disembark on the Israeli side of the border and enter together the ``Palestinian wing''of the customs ...
Walk like an Egyptian
... set & rise...taking dips in a resort pool...and relaxing on a private beach by the Red Sea...YES, that was our trip to Egypt.. Initially I was worried having Keiko to arrive in Egypt by herself, 8 hours before me. However, I was relieved to learn upon ...
Shukran and goodbye!
... don't end there though... These people love a good natter. How they go about this though is wildly different. In Egypt, and especially Cairo, people might literally stop in the middle of the street nonchalant to the chaos surrounding them. In Morocco, ...
I'm Sick of...
I'm sick of... 1) Having to sign out school resources and having to plead with the store room people to let me take out 3 glue sticks and 9 pens. 2) Being cat-called from the guys on the ...
flying egyptian air
the trip was short because i fell asleep for 11 hours. the plane flew upside down for 1 hour. we fell out of our seats. then we landed in egypt ...
In and out of comfort
I woke up at a brisk 8am to head down to the open breakfasts market held every last Sunday of the month on Cairo's main shopping street, Aziz Abaza which runs parallel to the Nile but on the opposite side from our hotel. The walk would of been a paced 5 ...
Egypt
... won so we had fun be loud with all the people around the city! It was a great game...ended after 2 overtimes and a shoot out 4-2 Egypt! I was humbled so much on this Egypt trip. So many of the people in Egypt have soo little, yet are willing to give ...
Leaving Alexandria, back to Cairo
... encircled by a crescent symolizing the long standing relationship between the Coptic Christians and the Muslims of Egypt. After that it was time to head back to Cairo, another three hour car trip. Along the way I saw a very interesting ...
Day 23 (Egyptian Museum)
Today, our last day in Egypt, we visit the Egyptian Museum, the storing house of all things ancient The museum costs 50E and is a great place to visit. There are two floors of exhibits and items to explore, with some truly incredible pieces ...
Cairo and the pyramids in Giza
... mihrab, or prayer niche, is made of Egyptian marble. Later we visited the masive Cairo Museum. There are over 147,000 artifacts here. The bottom floor of ...
Walking like a Egyptian
Walking like a Egyptian. Perfect theme song for this country and much more true than you can possibly imagine. Egypt is a good opportunity to sharpen your travelling skills and to witness the only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. But be ...
Cows in Egypt
... and listen to boyfriend gossip that doesn't exist because they are halfway around the world for the next 9 days. Anyway here I am in Cairo, Egypt home of the Great Pyramids and the Nile river. On the first night I was sitting in the hotel lobby ...
Like Vegas, but on Crack... "Welcome to Cairo"
... away from airport.... Apartment...Peter cooks us some Spaghetti and I max out like there is no tomorrow. after brief chatting, we go to bed. The adventure begins.... Tomorrow. Location: Maadi, Egypt Current Time: 5:45am Hours Awake: ...
Landing in Cairo, Egypt.... You better move fast..
... hotel is great! I found it on my trusty Tripadvisor,,,,,its a small guest house on the 12 and top floor of a building in downtown Cairo in the local district, and we have a great room with a balcony to watch the sunset on! Their is open air terrace that ...
Welcome to Cairo ! Wheres my Baksheesh...?
... belly dancing costumes...( don't laugh , Mo almost bought one...) and lots of things that you just cant live without after visiting Cairo, like those dancing stuffed camels ( kind of like the fish that sings , that you get home and you end up leaving ...
RETURN OF THE JERK
... . How different I felt walking down the streets of Cairo after being a nobody for a month and a half in Europe. In Cairo, in Egypt, in Africa (my fifth continent to have set foot on!) I am someone: a naive tourist, and a walking, breathing treasure ...
Alexandria to Cairo and around Cairo
... so we wanted a new Ford fan and while waiting for our letter, Mamdo took us out to 6 October City, a industrial area outside Cairo where the dealer was. This turned out to be another dead end unfortunately when the guy happily told us he had the part and ...