Let Me Inn
Travel Blogs from Cairo
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Amenities
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant