Saint George Hotel Giza

7 Radwan Ebn El-Tabib Street Giza, Egypt

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Heart of darkness

A travel blog entry by beckerworldtrip

4

... taken out of office earlier this year, there are very few rules and enforced laws that exist currently in Egypt. Because the country has been in its own functional brand of anarchy for many years, the lack of laws and honest policemen and policy makers has made it especially easy for Egypt to adjust to the change. But in places where the police interface with foreigners, such as here at the pyramids, the difference is more obvious. There are signs around the pyramids that say ...

Veteran's day in a foreign land

A travel blog entry by beckerworldtrip

3

... of the law. His family, who owns the building we are staying in, has been living in Giza for over four hundred years. His cousins and uncles are like the white squares on the chessboard that is Giza, and most of the black squares are his friends. Mason, seatbelt-less in the back seat, rolled from side to side taking it all in. No seatbelts exist in earnest in Egypt, but the cars don’t generate enough speed to justify them anyway. At least that’s what I kept telling ...

Tahir massakren

A travel blog entry by j.knudsen

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... blev bygget for at imødegå korsfarerne og som rummer flere store moskeer. Det liggeri bjergene øst for byen og altså langt fra aftenes begivenheder. Senere skulle vi på Det egyptiske Museum, der ligger ved Tahirpladsen, men alle meldinger vi fik lød på ro og ’normale’ tilstande.
Om selve begivenheden har jeg lyst til at fortælle at de personer jeg har talt med her er ...

Identity Crisis

A travel blog entry by wandering-milli

... prostitutes and beggars. His upbringing in Cairo left him with a complex similar to mine in that he was immersed into the expat community to which he only partly belonged. He interacted with children of British families stationed in Cairo as colonial officers yet because he was an Arab he was never really entitled to the same privileges. However he did hold an American passport, he was Christian and his first name was British. All these ...

Pyramids

A travel blog entry by friiskiwi

58

... driving though an informal market along the street. Carts of water melon and small herds of goats. People everywhere, what was amazing and sad, was the large amount of apartment houses being built, but the building had stopped, in some of them it looked like people had moved in anyway.

Finally we were getting close to our hotel, and then we were further away again and then we picked up our tour guide who wondered if we wanted to go and look at a ...

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