Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelAl Nabila Cairo Hotel
The Khan Al-Khalili
Woke up in the Al Nabila Hotel. Excited to find out what Cairo is all about, but also a bit nervous to find out just how bad Cairo might be. We were discussing back and forth whether or not we should actually get outside; Would we get run over by a taxi? Would we get mugged?? Kidnapped??? Or would we simply just get lost in an incredibly big Arabic …
Arrived in Cairo
It is nine at night and still lovely and warm. Egypt Air had great service and cattle class had more leg room than BA economy. Sharif is our guide for the week. He met us before passport control got our visas for us and is about to get us to our hotel. Roll on
Egypt with kids
On balance, I think this trip worked really well. We absolutely needed the guide to act as fixer to make sure everything went more or less to plan. There is no way we could have negotiated train stations or getting to the various sites on our own. By choosing a family oriented tour we managed most of the highlights but weren't packing in every …
Posting pics monday - thoughts on 1s that got away
Every trip seems to have pictures you just couldn't get. Most of mine the trip were because outside of monumnents we were fairly contained in moving vehicles making some pictures tricky. So I missed the men in the ahwah smoking their water pipes in the evening and the women washing the clothes in the canal each morning. I missed the two teenage …
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... pulled by donkeys or oxen driving down the wrong side of the road. Pedestrians wander into the street randomly, oblivious to any danger. Many do this just to give us the high-five. Small three-wheeler tuk-tuks driven by elated seven-year olds seemingly for sport try to knock the tourists off their bikes. No fatalities yet. If the rest of the tour is anything like this we’re in for big ...
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