Africana Hotel Alexandria

... leading port, a commercial and transportation centre and heart of a major industrial area. Its modern port terminal and surrounding infrastructure and architecture was a refreshing change from Port Said. It is a clean city characterized by a long seafront promenade known as the Corniche, and lined with hotels and restaurants. We had a few hours in this interesting port, to which we agreed we would return one day.<br><br>Highlights<br><br>1. Fort Qayt Bay is a ...

... this next tour it is broken into 2 groups of 16. While we are doing exactly the same itinerary, each group has some people that are just doing the Egypt portion and some doing both Egypt and Jordan. Not sure what criteria was used to determine the grouping. Our group consists of 6 Canadians including us, 2 Australians, 2 Swiss, 2 Irish, 2 English, 1 South African, and 1 American. Three-quarters of our group are doing the 2-week trip.<br><br>Our tour ...

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... a first to me....<br><br>there was no fire or any cool sights.... just poverty and pollution. <br><br>we enter Alexandria around 2:30 to a **** storm of traffic. eventually we find a parking lot and head to a sea food place that peter absolutely adores. Personally i was not a fan, but the others enjoyed it, so i went with the flow. i was more anxious to make our way to a decent bed in a decent hostel so i can flop down for a few ...

... hours to go through. Then I went back to bed for awhile only to get up again shortly after 6am. as I wanted to see us entering the canal. Our turn in the queue arrived about 7:15am and we could watch the other ships entering before us. The pilot came on board so it wasn't long after that. We entered at Suez City and sat at the rear of the ship while we ate our breakfast and that way we could see both sides of the canal. The city is very ...

... The roads were quite busy but we didn't have any hold ups until we reached Cairo. Cairo was a very dirty city with lots of traffic and people. There were also lots of donkeys pulling carts full of materials, vegetables and even people. Our first sight of the pyramids was through buildings as they are on the outskirts of the city. There were three of them at the first sight we visited belonging to Khufu 2551-2528 BC (grandfather), Khafre 2520-2494 BC ...

... Glad to have made someones day. <br><br>3. Egyptian people love to witness a scrap or kerfuffle. Seen a few since I've been here and people will run over from halfway up the street to see what's going on. Also witnessed a drive by snatch. Guy on the back of a motorbike scooped up a woman's handbag which was on her arm. Naturally she was distraught and the motorbike sped off. But tens of people ran over to see what had happened. Tightened my bag around ...

... things to come),  - get up next day at 07:30 ... And then repeat for 8 weeks. So you'd better get used to not hearing from us so often, although I suppose our flurry of e-mail has lessened to a trickle already, with the questionable availability of computers in Ethiopia and Sudan. OK, lots of love, Inshallah and out, Baul &amp; Bobbit. """""""""""""""""" Bloke walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre. So the barmaid gives him one. """"""""""""""""""