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300 Pyramdis Road Cairo, Egypt, 2-581-5940
We catch the flight to Cairo smoothly and arrive to find our tour guide waiting for us inside customs. He introduces himself, takes our passports to get the visas into them, walks us out of the terminal and to the car and driver. He's incredible. We talk about what we want to do and see as he takes us to our suboptimal hotel. Ah, what the hell, it's Egypt! We arranged for the guide through Atef Wahba in New Jersey at phone 201-791-4777. We wanted a cheap hotel and he put us at a 4 star hotel,...
Cairo, Egypt carltonOur guide and driver pick us up at the Europe Hotel and get us to the airport in plenty of time to catch our 10:25A Egyptair flight back to Athens, where we arrive at 12:35P. Our plan was to take the new subway to the Plaka, run out to the acropolis, then have dinner back in the Plaka. The subway is nice but not as fast as we wanted. We finally grab a taxi from the Plaka and get to the Acropolis a few minutes after it closes. Damn! I really wanted Lynn to see the Parthenon and the Museum. Oh ...
Athens, Attica, Greece carltonWell it was very sad last night to say goodbye to everyone, there were a few tears shed mainly for Terri and Peter. Didn't do much today. Got up at 8am so I could have a decent breakfast then went back to bed cos I am still sick from Dahab and was feeling very yucky. Didn't get much peace though because from 9:30 onwards I had three people knock on the door from house cleaning wanting to clean the room and I kept having to say come back at 12 when I have cheked out. No one listened though. I ...
Giza, Egypt zerns01
... and asked if I knew anyone around who was in charge. No, I said, I didn’t think someone in charge was necessary for students to get on a bus. “Well you might want to find someone,” he said, “Because that was the last scheduled bus for the day.” Apparently the International Student Office had FORGOTTEN to mention to the bus company that about 200 students would be needing buses for the first day of ...
Cairo, Egypt richfrohl... smallest of the 3 and visits inside are not permitted.
We visited the Solar boat museum (50egp) which is located next to the great Pyramid.The building looks like a bit of an eyesore but I guess they had no choice, except if they moved the barque. The barque may have been used to transport Khufu's body across the nile to the
Pyramid and was then buried next to it to provide transport to the King in the afterlife. Pretty cool looking ship.
We drove down to the Sphinx ...
... lady, very nice...how many camels???" LOL. At least it is good humored..the men think its great.. I get some pretty dirty looks from women. Maybe they think I am half dressed as I dont have my hair covered, I can't win! Dan buys a watch, we get a few bits and pieces..and it gets tiring quickly, having to battle to get out of a shop without having bought something..so after a while we catch a taxi to Downtown Cairo for food.
The ...
... and much calmer...
I really think there's a possibility I might want to have kids some day, so I'm glad the ride ended after about 45 minutes...about 44 minutes too late...
The one thing I did like about the rides though is that we were out in the desert riding around old tombs and ruins. That was pretty cool.
When we got back to the boat our Nubian driver had taken off his traditional robes, called a Gallebea, hung them up and was sporting ...
... same price last night that we paid at Ramses II, although if given the choice, I would probably pick Ramses II over King Tut. The first order of business for us was to shower, it was after all, our first shower since Sunday and let me tell you, it was AMAZING! While Cory was in the shower, I had the opportunity to take a look through some of the hundreds of TV channels in our room. Most were, predictably, in Arabic. I didn't find much in the way ...
Cairo, Egypt prfoley... chillies and carrots. We then headed back to the hotel had a nap and then met for the group meeting downstairs. Went for a quick bite with the group with some great fast food Egyptian style with Katherine having Falafels and I had a Chicken Swarama (Chicken Kebab meat in a pita). After that it was off to bed for an early start to see the Pyramids!
Day 2 - We were up early (soon to be common practice for most of the trip) had some Egyptian breakfast ...
After a very painful train ride I am back in Cairo. I said goodbye to the remaining members of my group, and headed to the hotel. I took this last day to try and see as much of Cairo as I could. My first stop the Citadel, with its amazing mosque and views over Cairo. From the Citadel I think I met the only taxi driver in Cairo that speaks English, he ...
Cairo, Egypt cora_explorer
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