Porto Marina Alexandria

Within minutes we notice one significant difference between Egypt and the rest of Africa. They drive on the right in Egypt.<br><br>The drive in from the Cairo airport is like a scene from "Fast and Furious". Amidst a sea of yellow and black Russian-built Lada taxis, there are hundreds of cars and other vehicles, all traveling as fast as they can, forming 5 to 6 lanes of one-way traffic over a highway with only 3 marked lanes on it. Cars weave from one side ...

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... also another hotel also on the 4th floor which we passed, we were rather pleasantly suprised by the complete change of interior and from a shabby place it was transformed into any hotel corridor that you would see in a nice hotel. The reception was at the end, the hotel owner herself greated us. Exhausted we were shown to our executive room, for $89 US per night compared to the Hilton Ramses which was $350 per night (apparently!). <br><br> I can ...

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... side stalls selling watermelons. ( They had a novel way of displaying their wares in pyramid formations). We had a comfort stop at road side services- an experience in itself as Sheila wasn't the favourite foreigner because she forgot "baksheesh" when she went to the loo! It is difficult to get into the practice of paying someone to accompany you in to a cubicle to wipe the seat and give you your ration of three squares of toilet paper. As we continued our journey we ...

... the book shop and of course was able to find a book and some other little trinkets.  We hung out there for a little while and then met Bob. Lunch was definitely the next priority as it was around 3:30 and we hadn't eaten since breakfast at 7:00am! Bob took us to a very local restaurant that served seafood.  There is no way that any one would find this place unless you were with a local person.  He did the ordering-some ...

Alexandria is a much nicer city than Cairo sitting on the Mediterranean Coast. I visited Pompey's Pillar (which turns out it never beloged to him at all), the Roman Catacombs and the National Museum (Greek and Roman history, Pharonic history and Coptic Christian history). I also ...

... piles of trash everywhere; personalized balconies- painted their own colors; contrast of donkeys and tv dishes; very green flat delta area; small fields- patchwork quilt; frequently a couple cows/cape buffalo tied up; many donkeys- ridden and pulling carts. Our first visit is the ruins of a Roman Amphitheater. It was accidentally discovered when they were starting to build a new stadium. There's still some excavating on ...

Raaaah. C'est un peu l'expression que j'avais en tete hier soir, m'ecroulant sur mon premier lit jordanien. Je suis donc bel et bien arrivé en Jordanie, ait fini par quitter l'Egypte. Mais quel bordel ! Transports en train, bus, bateau et taxi se sont succédés les uns aux autres entre Alexandrie, nord ouest de l'Egypte, et Aqaba. Traverser le Sinai puis ...

... had never been. <br><br>We kept on going in a northerly direction until we hit the Mediterranean, where the seafront was a buzz of activity of fisherman casting their rods off the concrete retaining walls and into the sea. And, as with seemingly every vocation in this country, nobody operated without robustly exchanging some differences of opinion with their peers. <br> <br>From there we followed the Corniche westward around the Eastern Harbour to ...