Helnan Palestine Hotel Alexandria

... shorts, considered to be sacrilegious. A woman in this Moslem country must cover her legs and all parts of her body except for her face and hands.<br><br>4. Montazah Palace is set in extensive gardens and overlooks a truly beautiful stretch of coast. It cost $5 to enter and use the bathrooms. I opted for the bus loo instead. Nice view. Pricy toilets.<br><br>5. We walked a local market which proved to be the high point of our short visit. It was filled ...

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... are coming with us as far as Alexandria then getting a private car to Al Elmain where there is 2nd world war history. We chat to Rob about Australia, he seems pretty interested in australia in general and it passes the time quickly. Our guide Mohammed is from Alexandria and knows the sites well. We go to the catacombs that have been found under neath a private home. It contains the remains of a mixture of religions, whomever wanted to bury ...

... barely working and shower with no curtain or toiletries of any sort. there were no bugs though, and we did get cable tv in a super scrambled form. but it was like 5 channels repeated in like 50 languages. all in all, i felt safe, and i slept well. and the view was amazing.<br><br>Eff me. We get situated and unpack a few things.....then we grab our daypacks and head towards the alleyways and street vendors. lots of shops and lots of ...

... reached Great Bitter Lake about noon and saw all the ships anchored waiting for the convoy going up to finish before they could continue their journey. We didn't reach the Mediterranean until 5pm and I just marvel at this whole experience. We had to leave early to get ready for our drinks with John &amp; Diana before we all went to dinner. They live near Eric's brother in England so we will meet up with them next week at their home. It was ...

... and didn't get lost. We walked the length of the water front promenade, where many locals hang out and enjoy the breeze. Fishing boats galore operated in the harbor area just beyond the sandy beach. At the end of the peninsula there was a long row of vendors catering to tourists as well as locals, where the city meets the boundless Mediterranean. Along the way we ventured ...

... went to see the Sphinx which is on the same site as the pyramids and was sculpted out of the limestone of the plateau. The head is thought to be that of Khafre and as you know has a body of a crouching lion, a symbol of regal power. To get fairly close to the Sphinx you have to go through the Temple of the Sphinx which again is made of hugh granite blocks and has many columns inside, everyone exactly the same and in perfectly straight rows. The ...

... train and it was very cheap for a 2 hour journey. Nice to be out of Cairo and on the move. Nice to see loads of greenery once we left the outskirts. Thousands of shades of green from the fields which are watered by the Nile and the various rivers and canals coming off of it before it hits the Med. <br><br>Saw some real poverty in rural Egypt from the train. Lot of buildings in towns and villages half finished and look as if they were half finished years ago ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)<br>< br>With the tour over, those of us with another day remaining were officially on our own time. Paul and Hoges went off to see the Sakkara pyramid, getting caught up with some con-artists purporting to be &#8216;government authorities&#8217; in the process, while Nicole and I were interested in taking a day trip to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. <br><br>The two of us took the ...

... town of Karima, and saw some impressive pyramids.  Dongola, with its uninspiring Nubian temple (...looked like a load of old rubble to Mr R).  For the festival of Eid-el-Fitr (which marks the end of Ramadan) we were trapped (because everyone was more interested in feasting than driving buses) in the dusty town of Kurma, where the drivers had an irritating penchant for blasting their two-tone car horns at all times of the day.  And the penultimate stop ...