Safir Hotel Cairo Giza

... at hotel and free day at leisure. Overnight in Sharm El-Sheikh.<br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> DAY 08 - Sharm el Sheikh to Cairo:<br><br><br> <br> Breakfast, check out and at 1pm meet for transfer to the Super Jet Bus Station for 3pm departure on the air conditioned bus to Cairo with arrival around 10pm. On arrival meet for transfer to your hotel and check-in. Overnight in Cairo.<br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> DAY 09 - Old Cairo and the Egyptian Museum:<br><br><br ...

... waiting room in the Giza train station. Finally the train pulled in and we got our 2 person cabins. A terrible train dinner was served and then Carla and I tried to go straight to sleep. We'd been up since 5 am and jet lag was catching up with us. I slept OK purely because I was so tired after the full day, but the train tracks were certainly bumpy and the ladder in our compartments rattled through the night so other from our group were not nearly as lucky.

... collection of Pharaonic antiquities and also many treasures of King Tutankhamen. Then visit Old or Coptic Cairo where you will visit St.Serguios Church, Hanging Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue. Enjoy shopping at Khan El Khalily Bazaars. Drive back to your Cruise in Ein-Sokhna Port.<br><br>Inclusions:<br><br>Meet and assist at Ein-Sokhna Port<br><br>Transportation by air ...

... quesion: did they have to pay extra to go to Abu Simbel or did Top Deck recognize that the whole point of going to Aswan is to go to Abu Simbel and therefore included it in the set itinerary?<br><br>Top Deck with its one American though, as a group, reflected a noticable difference between most of the American tourists we have encountered in the Middle East and the European or other Western tourists (in this case Columbian and Aussie). For a country ...

Well Cynthia and I made it to Cairo today. Our day started off *very* early to climb Mt Sinai before the sunrise. We woke up at 215am and made it to the top at 540 (sunrise was at 545). We took camels part of the way up to enjoy the stars (they were amazing with no light pollution... imagine a long exposure photograph in Thunder Bay and that was what they looked like - I saw 6 shooting stars as well). After the camels there were ...

... COVERED with plastic bags and trash. People toss....anything...on the ground without giving it a second thought. Locals actually admonished me for trying to find a bin for my cigarette butt. <br><br>*It was sad to see the poverty and general living conditions of many of the people throughout the region. There seems to be little-to-no assistance for much of the population who live a very hard life. <br><br><br>Ma'a salama Middle East.....ciao Europe!

... a few weeks ago. We walked immediately behind the hotel to All Saints Cathedral, where our church in Sydney supported some missionaries working there. Things were pretty quiet but we were able to buy some last minute souvenirs from Tukul Craft, a program providing skills and employment for refugees who had fled north over the border from neighbouring war-torn Sudan. <br><br> From there the two ...

... repeatedly flicking through it and holding individual pages up towards the ceiling lights before also passing them under an ultraviolet lamp. All the security features of a legitimate Australian passport were showing, but after some debate and consternation the officials told us to take a seat for &#8220;five minutes&#8221; alongside some other undesirables while they took both our passports away and went into an adjoining office. One by one the other ...

This morning we slept in a bit, had a wonderful breakfast at the "greenery" (a rather strange Monty-Pythonesque name), and checked out. Our luggage safely in storage, we hired a taxi for a visit to Dahshur and Saqqara. We agreed with the taxi &#8220;pacha&#8221; for $20 TC &#8211; already too much. But the taxi driver said he'd been told Saqqara and Memphis (50 km less to drive and less ...