Sofitel Cecil Alexandria

... mint tea is good, but we pass on the meal. The trip takes about 2 ½ hours.<br><br>No one from Imaginative Traveller is waiting for us at the station. We wait for 15 minutes before asking one of the many tourist police to phone the representative listed on our documentation. It is another 15 minutes before someone arrives. We are not impressed at all, especially since the lack of information by Imaginative Traveller we encountered earlier.<br><br>By the ...

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Day tour to visit El Alamein remains from Alexandria Port 150$<br><br>Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up from your Ship Cruise by air-condition modern van to visit El Alamein WWII Cemeteries &amp; the war museum with collectibles from the Battle of El Alamein and other North ...

... for the other sites we were to see. The building housing the museum was once the American embassy and it great appeal in itself. Our next stop was at the Kom El Shogafa catacombs, the largest Roman funerary complex in Egypt. As we wandered down the spiral staircase the temperature was much cooler and Engy explained how a family vault became a community burial area, which for many years lay undiscovered. In 1990, a donkey fell down a hole on the side of the hill and ...

Alexandria is busy trying to set itself up as a modern city, with new shopping malls and hotels. But side by side with these malls are the local street markets- often just a tarp ladden with clothes for sale, or sometimes the goods are placed directly on the dusty pavement. There are animal carcasses with flies buzzing around hanging in open air stalls and carts selling street meat- sharwma- while the next street over is a variety of ...

... least the head scarf on women. The signs of poverty are pervasive. I want to double check with Ahmed about Jack's quoted figures about the annual wages. I think he got mixed up. (note: I confirmed wage info. Typical citizen male monthly wage is $250 US. Women make less. For husband, wife, and one child, minimum monthly income requirement is approx $500. So most men hold two jobs and women one (outside the home). Many of the elderly women stay home ...

... such as E-M- Forster and Cavafy. Generations of immigrants from Greece, Italy and the Levant settled here and made the city synonymous with commerce, cosmopolitanism and bohemian culture. Alexandria is a city to explore at random. It's as important to enjoy the atmosphere as it is to see the sights.

... yellow unlike Cairo's black and white. They're the real African Killer bees- rushing everywhere. Last stop is the El Monteza Gardens and Palace. Brief walk around as it's getting late and we have the drive back to Cairo yet. On the drive back, T. has the van stop for a pigeon house photo op. Sunset as we drive. I'm zonked out. Back to Cairo in time for another traffic jam. I've got two days before the rest of the gang arrive.

... favourite meal, amongst an almost festive crowd of families.<br> <br>Little kids were put up on the rooves of parked cars by their Dads while they happily munched on their rolls from Gad, and we ruminated over where we could buy a set of saucepans or some socks at this late hour of the night. The answer was right here, on the kerb of a noisy, choked and chaotically busy street in the middle of Cairo. I&#8217;d grown extremely fond of this place.<br>