Holiday Hotel Port Said

... another good day to travel thru Egypt. It is in the middle 70s and the sun is shinning. There was not a lot of wind blowing so that the weather and the sun formed together and mad it a wonderful day. To get into Cairo we will be driven for about three and a half hours on a tour bus. The time goes by as fast as the little villages appear and fall behind us as we drive along the main road into Cairo. You can tell the distance from Cairo as the traffic becomes ...

... passed lots of donkeys pulling carts loaded with grass or other things (not sure what). When we got to the outskirts of Cairo we were warned about the traffic. It goes from 2 lanes into as many as can fit on the road. There aren't really any rules as long as you don't hit each other. Horns are used a lot. The first pyramid we visited was the Saqqara Pyramid which is a step pyramid. We were not able to go inside this but walked around and looked at very dusty ...

... the world's largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities and also many treasures of King Tutankhamen. Visit the Citadel of Salah ElDin and Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque. Enjoy shopping at Khan El Khalily Bazaars.Have lunch at local restaurant. Drive back to your Cruise in Port-Said Port.

Inclusions:

Meet and assist at Port-Said Port

Accommodation for 01 Night at 3stars hotel in Cairo

Port Said, Egypt melano

Cairo sightseeing from Port-Said Port 175$

Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up from your Ship Cruise by air-condition modern van to visit Giza Plateau, the three Pyramids of Queops, Quephren & Mykerinos. Visit the Great Sphinx and the valley temple. Have lunch at local restaurant ...

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Professional English tour guide

Lunch at local restaurant

One battle of mineral water for each person

Entrance fees to all mentioned sights

All taxes & Service charges

Exclusions:

Any optional tour if required

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Today we completed an item from our bucket list. We rode camels in front of the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Today we would again be on an adventure of time and space. Today we were in Lower Egypt and were viewing sites built in the First and Middle Kingdoms of the great civilization of Ancient Egypt. Our ship had entered into Port Said the previous evening. Again we arose early as we had a tour of the pyramids that would entail a two and a half hour journey into Cairo and Giza ...

Port Said was the refuge from Cairo we were looking for. The air was cleaner, the food was awesome, and the rates were more than reasonable. This was probably because we were the only tourists in Port Said. I guess after the war fifty years ago, tourism was wiped out in Port Said, but it still had all the wonderful things we were looking for. Our hotel room at the Mereland was more like an apartment with two bedrooms, 5 beds, a full size refrigerator, a living room, and a private bath ...

... Sea towards our first European destination, Athens in Greece, where we arrive tomorrow morning. Note: I mentioned to you about the high security in Egypt. Security has been a concern onboard our cruise ship, too. We have 5 Gurkhas from Nepal onboard. Gurkhas are highly trained, dedicated, aggressive fighters with superior physical strength. We also have an audible electronic warning system which emits an ear splitting sound toward approaching ...

... racing the ships that were making their way towards the Med on the canal. It is a strange sight as you cannot see the canal; you turn your head and suddenly out of nowhere there is a huge ship seemingly in the middle of the sand. Port Said is quite a cool little city. Bustling and unpretentious. However I couldn't find any particularly impressive part of the canal to look at. Presumably it does have some locks or gates or toll ...

... though admittedly this was mostly because I knew it would only be for a few days. I stayed the first night in a decent hotel, on account of my guide-book's only budget recommendation being full.(not in this case as a consequence of the guidebook recommendation, I didn't see another tourist all week). I spent the evening bed hunting, eventually I found a small dark hotel called 'Mereland', two pounds per night and a bed available for the week, it ...