Salma Hotel Cairo
12 Mohamed Kamel Morsi Street Dokki Cairo, Egypt
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Cairo
I arrived at the hotel at 4am was woken on the Holy Day at 5am with chanting across the city calling the people to prayer. this went on again for another 2 hours at lunchtime. I joined the hustle and bustle of Cairo to see the sites. First stop the bazaar of Khan al Khalili where I practiced my haggling skills - I am afraid I am not very good at it …
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
The train pulls into Giza Station just past 9:30 AM, over 1 1/2 hour late. We gather our luggage, pile into the bus, and it crawls through Cairo traffic arriving at the King Hotel about an hour later.
We unload our luggage and await our room number. Then we are informed that we are now split into two new groups and our group has to move to …
Cairo 2
I hate Egyptians already I went to bed last night at 8pm, but took ages to fall asleep because of the traffic noise outside. Still I got 11 hours of sleep, making up for the 4 hours I had the day before. If I was unsure how incompetent Egyptians were before, I certainly know now. I took clothes to the hotel reception at 9am, to be told it'd all be …
Cairo camping
* first real camp site
* outside Cairo is better than insite that 20-million "mother-of-world"
* egypt museum
* Coptic Cairo: churches
* Pyramids and tombs
* Downtown
Things Go Sideways: Unfortunately
The overnight train left Aswan in the late afternoon. Our group was a little down since folks had been informed that our very excellent guide was being "let go" by the Imaginative Traveller's holding company. She would not be accompanying us on the next leg of the tour into the Sinai and over to Jordan. Given her expertise, knowledge of the …


