Sheraton Dreamland Hotel And Conference Center Giza

... pint with a friend but fairly annoying when you've just flown into a new country. <br><br>Cairo is a tip. A vast city of over 16m people with almost no urban planning just miles of half-finished rather ugly apartments. It felt more like the outskirts of Mumbai than a cosmopolitan capital city. The hotel we were staying at was the Meridian Pyramids in Giza. Just a stones throw from the monuments themselves and large, well equipped, comfortable but unforgettable.

... next carving and giving a detailed yet speedy description of each pieces importance. I began to be really impressed by his knowledge of Egyptian history and artifacts. My last tour guide was just that - our overall guide and we had local guides at each site. Here Mayer was doing both roles and doing it very well. (NOTE: I later found out he had graduated at the top of his class from Cairo University with a Masters in Egyptology and has just been hired to lead ...

... agreed it would be the most interesting and not to mention the cheapest if we went the local way. The four of us, 3 guys and 1 girl, got onto the metro, only to realise as the doors where shutting we had managed to make it into the women only carriage. We tried to escape but only managed to get stuck in the doors. The women said not to worry about it but as we were going a long way we got off at the next stop and moved down a carriage. We have to say the womens carriage is ...

... Enjoy an excursion to visit Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinus - continue visiting the great and mighty Sphinx - visit to the Valley Temple, continue visiting the Egyptian Museum with the treasures of King Tutankhamen, it was enclosed in his tomb more than 3,500 years- Back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo.<br><br>Day 3: Temple Of Alexander the Great &amp; the Valley of the Golden Mummies ...

... support boat or picking up her bag myself. Her wallet was in her bag as well, and between the two of us we had just over 1500 Egyptian pounds, which we knew since we had just visited the ATM. Kristen had taken out money this time, and when I had checked my e-mail the previous morning, I had put 4 100 pound notes into my wallet. My internet had cost 10 pounds, which I had taken out nd kept loose next to the keyboard upon arrival.<br><br>And yet now in my ...

After our night in the sleeper train, Mohammed (the same guy who picked us up on the airport day one and escorted us to the train station along with Mustafa on our first day in Cairo) picked us up from the station and took us back to the Grand Pyramids Hotel. We had some time to shower and get ready for the day before our guide - a woman named Russia - arrived to take us to a few more places in Cairo. <br>First we went to The Citadel and Muhammed Ali ...

... and until now I had no idea there were also some baby sized Queens Pyramids built around there too) is the Pyramid of Khafre. Although it was the second one to be built and is fractionally smaller than the Great Pyramid, it looks taller and still has some of the smooth outer layer of limestone intact at its very pinnacle. <br><br>But the one that has coped the worst with the ravages of time is the Pyramid of Menkaure. That has nothing to do with its shoddy ...

... off the plane and ready to be taken for a ride. At the end of the 15-20 minute journey the driver first wanted thirty Egyptian pounds and then it went up to forty. At LE40 we were being fleeced and we knew it, but we had no idea what was a more realistic price to pay. Converting the amount back it was only AU$8 between the three of us so it really wasn&#8217;t worth arguing about, but what a different story it would turn out to be by the end of the trip when ...

... and to help us the corner of busy Emad ad-Din and the narrow laneway the hotel was situated on was clearly marked by a large hoarding for an Egyptian film or soap opera. It displayed faces of four middle aged men with prominent moustaches and a couple of token women, interestingly though with heavy eye make up and no Muslim head coverings, unlike virtually all their female Egyptian counterparts we were passing on the street. <br> <br>We didn&#8217;t have to ...

... we weren&#8217;t able to verify that since it&#8217;s off limits to the public. We also visited the first pyramid ever built, Zoser&#8217;s step pyramid built by Imhotep in © 2700 BC! He started with a stone mastaba, then built another smaller one on top and then just kept going. It is truly amazing, nearly 5000 years old. <br><br>We also walked around to the Serdab, a sort of stone ...