Mercure Romance Alexandria

... 1587;ي 06; ذوقك في تنسيق ديكور المنا 86;ل و الغرف


لعبة النطا 91;
اليكم لعبة الاثا 85 ...

... dead without persecution. So bones, mummies and all sorts of blends of decorations are found. Its kinda weird seeing a sarcophagus surrounded by egyption, greek and roman are all blended together. Underground water is threatening the catacombs, it has engulfed the third level and they pump out water daily. Who knows how long it will stand!

We move on to Pompeii's pillar, a Roman temple for a new religion introduced to bring all the ...

... large and a very busy port. We spent the day sitting on our chaise lounge with a couple from Florida and watched the scenery change constantly. Even though there is alot of sand on one side the other side is built up. It also amazed us at the mitlitary presence along both sides of the canal and all the compounds with guards and guns. We were greeted with waves all along the trip. The canal can handle 110 ships in a 24 hour period and the ...

... promenade fronted by many turn of the (20th) century hotels and apartment buildings with faded romantic charm. After a lot of searching we found a tourist information center at the corner of one of the water front squares graced by a statue of Cleopatra. Even after getting a map of the city there we still got lost in the maze of small streets, and after witnessing killing of ...

... and Menkaura 2494-2472 BC (son). This is a large site with lots of armed guards around as well as camels, horses, horse and carts and their handlers and people selling the usual touristy things. The pyramids are extremely impressive with Khufu's being the biggest. It has 365 levels and originally had a single block at the top which represented the leap year. They are made of enormous blocks of granite and Khufu and Khafre's pyramids would originally ...

... shoulders after that little episode.

4. Egyptian kids love to say hello when they see a foreigner. usually comes out as hallo. Egyptian people also usually only say three things to me: 1) Where are you from? 2) welcome to Egypt 3) taxi?. Still at least they can speak some English unlike my Arabic which is limited. Need to learn a few more phrases. Usually brings a smile to their faces when I say something in Arabic, even if it is thank you or yes.

... s window on the world" was rebuilt between 1995 and 2002, inspired by the original (from the third C BC and destroyed by earthquake) that can hold over eight million books. At night, when we were wandering in the side streets, we stopped by to have some Turkish coffee and local sweets when we met a gentleman who volunteered to explain the local history and traditions. It turned that he is a professor of environmental energy who is also a Canadian ...

... for some chips. After some discussion with a shopkeeper about the flavour of the chips with help from the guide I got a large packet of chips and 4 Ho-Hos (chocolate bars) for 5LE - $NZ1.25.

The next stop was Pompey's pillar which was actually built for Diocletian, 250years after Pompey's murder. It was big, on a hill, but not as impressive as the columns seen in Upper Egypt. We then drove along the Corniche (waterfront) to ...

... capital of culture. Its famous great library held some 700,000 texts and many things were discovered by intellects studying here:
- Herophilus discovered that thought comes from the head and not from the heart
- Euclid developed geometry
- Aristarchus discovered that the Earth revolves around the sun
- Erastothenes calculated the Earth's circumference.
On top of this Alexandria was home to one of the ancient seven wonders of ...

So where were we?  Khartoum, Sudan.And where are we? Alexandria, in Northern Egypt. Since the last update we have covered a whopping 2500kms.  We have not done the stats (...yet), but this is likely to be the largest distance travelled between updates. Sudan turned out to be a joy.  OK, so the hotels were a bit grotty and over-priced.  The food was tasty but very one-dimensional (25 days in Sudan, 24 days eating fuul!).  The 'sights' were far inferior ...