Novotel 6th Of October Cairo

... the wedding we will be taking a two day trip to Luxor, and then off to France, where we will stay with family in the country over Christmas. and New years in Paris itself. The entire trip is going to be about 2 and a half weeks...and I couldn't be more excited!

... of the stand. The pilot followed, then realised his mistake and tried to turn the plane onto the stand proper only achieving a result where he was parked diagonally across 2 stands and a long way from the jetway. In fact they broke the jetway trying to get it joined to the plane!<br><br>Nothing surprises here though, we are in Egypt after all.<br><br>Rest of the journey goes without problems and we get home just ...

... Amman Jordan was the first city on our trip. The city is very old with beautiful white, low profile buildings. The city is clean and as the population is 40% Christian and about 50% Muslim, it was a shining example of the two religions living in harmony. Truly, Amman had some of the nicest people we had met on our trip so far. They were not so concerned with selling things or ripping us off, instead they would actually show interest in our country ...

... did make it to the hostel, took the elevator (which you can only take up???) to the 4th floor, and made arrangement for the next day. We only had two days in Cairo, so we decided to book our tour to see all of the pyramids tomorrow with the hostel. Then I made my picks on my iPhone for my NFL confidence pool (I just can't seem to detach completely), then easily crashed in the surprisingly comfortable hostel beds.

... to me. I slept until 5:30 pm the next day, missing the advising appointment I had set up to set my schedule. My friend helped me out, rescheduling it for the next day. I went to the apartment of two friends, Corley and Jasmine, and hung out there before breaking the fast at &#8220;Euro Deli,&#8221; a restaurant that has just about everything you could ever want to eat here. After dinner, we hopped in a cab to Tahrir Square, the ...

... Agha Khan Mausoleum. Overnight in Aswan.<br><br>Day 7:<br><br>Disembarking from the Cruise- Transfer to Aswan Airport for departure by flight to Cairo- Meet &amp; assist at Cairo Airport then transfer to hotel. Optional to visit Old Cairo, including visits to Hanging Church (El Muallaka), one of the oldest churches in Egypt dates to the 3rd century AD, Abu Serga Church, Coptic Museum which contains the largest collection of antiques and works of artifacts in ...

... br><br>After I got out, I walked around for a bit. I got to this building and some guy chased me and said I wasn't allowed there. It had a nice view of the city so I said "I take a picture and I go ok?"<br>O.k, so they take my camera and take two really bad pictures of me and then one guy smiles this big toothy grin full of tarter and says "Baksheesh?" meaning bribe..funny how they use the exact same word in India. I give him a 20 and only realize later that I ...

Friday 3rd July. After we packed up we quickly went across the road from the hostel to a shipping office and sent a large box home containing excess clothing and t-shirts we had acquired along the way in the past 2 months. This came to about 78 pounds worth for 10kgs of stuff. Trying to travel light and not buy souvenirs we had still accumulated 10 extra kgs of stuff a lot of it memento maps and excess winter gear we would not possibly need from now on. Despite this I still donated a few ...

... for a much needed milkshake, and then after the pool to atempt, unsuccessfully, to upload my photos of Ramses II's grin.<br><br>At dinner time a group of 9 of us, Kristen, Victor, Jessica, Kat, Briana, Ashley, Melissa, Alice and I congregated in the loby to find a good spot. I talked with the tourist policeman/security guard Mustafa for a while for a good place to go. Mustafa told me how much he loved Obama and thught Obama was good for America and the world ...

... sure whether this made me feel more safe or scared sh#%less that they felt something was about to go down.<br>After making it through an adventurous security process we sat at the airport (we were forbidden to stand in the lounge as a security precaution) and watched his arrival on TV which was ironic since he had to be literally a couple thousand feet from anywhere in the airport. As we boarded the bus that took us out to the runway we ...