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Egypt
26th - Arrived at 9am south of the High Dam and prepared to enter Egypt. Then began the LONG process of entering into Egypt. All the immigration matters: filling in health cards and getting stamped into the country, is carried out onboard by 2 or 3 people - the boat had a couple of hundred passengers. We spent most of the time on deck chatting or …
Wizards, womanisers and weird ass mannequins
Arriving into Cairo early morning, Mark makes his way through the outrageous traffic to the car park we’ll be parked up in for the next 5 days. Luckily we’re not camping in said car park but are instead put up in a hotel around the corner, the Sun Hotel just off Tahrir Square. The hotel has a good location but unfortunately no en-suite …
This city is amazing
... them in the bus. This museum is next to Mubarak's office building (which is still a burned out shell) and was reported to have been broken into during the revolution. There is no way you could see everything in this museum in a week. It contains the King Tut items (the tour to the US only got a few) and many sarcophagus, and furniture from the tombs. It also has a couple of museum cats. We are told ...
The one with all the spinning
... with amazing style and pizazz. It was great to see men being such impressive performers, many of them were quite old and didn't look particularly fit, but they would move around the stage like ballerinas or hop around like acrobats. It was very spectacular and entertaining.
Afterwards we were taken by our friends to a restaurant which we had to wiggle through souks and between salesmen to get to. It felt a lot more like a city. The restaurant we went to was ...
A little help
... shirt was completely buttoned up and covering my arms before sliding into the double seats that I had to myself. I was just relieved that I had actually made it onto the plane before it left. The young Egyptian flight attendant was actually quite friendly and spoke heavily accented English which put me at ease. On the flight itself I just had this thought and knew that my bag wouldn’t have made it to Cairo. The connecting flight was so crazy and it felt as though I hadn’t ...