Let Me Inn Cairo

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Landed and on the move

I took the plane from Doha to Cairo. The plane ride was great - middle eastern food was one of the choices so thats what I had. Landed and got a taxi to the Let Me Inn hostel. Dirt cheap, clean and dinner and breakfast included. All for $5 a night. Today I went to Dashur, Saqqara, Memphis and the Pyramids of Giza. We rode horses around the Pyramids of Giza. The other areas mentioned had pyramids but in different stages of decay. I've made some new friends and tug along with them today. Tomorr...

Cairo, Egypt mrcwoodsman
That was a long flight...

We woke to the sound of a cacophony of car horns at 2:30 pm. That's right, 2:30 pm. That's what happens when you go to sleep at 4:30 in the morning, and combine it with jet lag. Yuck. We wandered into the common room/lobby of the guesthouse where we were greeted by a group of unfamiliar Egyptians(meaning not the same ones that greeted us last night). I get the feeling that this hostel is a sort of meeting place for the many friends to the family that runs it.

After a cup of tea, we cha...

Cairo, Egypt skyisblu
Happy New Year! Now is the time for pyramids.

Woke up earlier than expected, as the anticipation of the sights to come was too great for my brain to not be fixated on and go back to sleep! We had a great breakfast at the guesthouse(included!), omelets with crispy bread, not unlike phyllo, la vache qui rit cheese, fig jam and Yellow Label tea. No sooner did we finish the last bite of our delectable meal, and our driver shows up to collect us for our day trip to the pyramids! Down the 6 flights of stairs from the guesthouse to the street, ...

Cairo, Egypt skyisblu
Onwards? Or still in Cairo?

My sleeping bag is much too comfy, I don't want to get up in the morning! Mario forced me out of bed, but we lazed around the hostel before heading out for the day. Zizu at the front desk managed to book us tickets for a tour down to Aswan and Luxor, so we will be leaving Cairo this evening for a little while. But not for now.

We get somewhat lost again, trying to follow the roads on our little business card-of-a-map from the hostel, but eventually make it to the Egyptian Museum. It's...

Cairo, Egypt skyisblu
So we've been gone for awhile...

Just got back from Ramses Train Station, and are home again at the Let Me Inn. Feels good to be back. I know we've been absent for the last few days, but we've been so busy seeing EVERYTHING in Luxor, we didn't have a chance to even get near a computer, much less time to write an entry. Yes, we saw EVERYTHING in Luxor, or at least, it felt like it. As part of our tour package, we were bused to west and east bank to visit all the temples, and tombs, and colossi, etc, etc., leaving not much roo...

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Back home in Cairo again.

We arrived on the slow bus last night, and got ceremoniously dumped in the middle of nowhere. Seriously! The driver started yelling "Finish bus! Finish bus!" So we all got off. And there we where, 5 foreigners covered in sand and grim, desperate for a shower, somewhere. One of the girls on our desert trek spoke Arabic, so she asked around, and we found out we were in Giza, at the very end of the metro line into Cairo. I think the bus driver short-changed us. The desert trek was AMAZING. It wa...

Cairo, Egypt skyisblu
Back in Cairo - for the last time (sniff)

We took a minibus back into the city this time, hoping for better service that being dumped in some random parking lot in the middle of nowhere. OK - so we got dumped on a street corner in downtown Cairo, but at least we knew where we were this time, and walked the 2 blocks back to the hostel. Not so bad, but we had been told this was a door-to-door service. No tip for you, mister minibus driver! Our one day of R&R was fantastic - exactly what we needed. Mario and I walked along the board...

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Shopping until we drop(ping)

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... t show up to pick us up, so we had to negotiate again for a ride back to the airport. The driver started at 150 Egyptian Pounds and we got him down to 70 plus a 5 pound tip if he dropped us off at the airport (which was the destination). They don't like to go into the airport because of a toll. So we got in a really old car and drove into the airport highway system. Its a new airport and very confusing. We couldn't figure out how to get to terminal 3. The driver ...

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Museum and Wedding

... myself. They had so many different animals mummified like cats, dogs, alligators, birds and I think a fish as well. There were also some fake ones in the mix, with a card saying that after X-rays, or CAT scans or something, it was just an empty shell. Oh well, it was awesome to be in that room. I wish I could have spent more time in that room looking at the different things mummified there. 
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Cairo: Thanks For All the Allergies

Well, I wondered what it was. I went to the doctor this morning and he says I'm having one big jolly respiratory allergy reaction thing. That explains why it feels like there is a pipe-cleaner in my lungs and I have the energy of a lawn ornament.

The funny thing is, I'm not really allergic to anything. Beyond my mythological reaction to ...

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