Pyramids Golf Resort Hilton Cairo

... number of tourists actually on the streets, even more surprising the limited number of services for them, such as English menus, etc., so I find myself choosing places because they speak some English, so that if all goes well I can avoid them next month when they refuse to speak Arabic to me. Or maybe not. Studying Arabic can put you to sleep, some king of natural sleeping pill. I better sleep on these new travel plans, that&#8217;s for sure.<br ...

... a big smile to our face and an emotional tear to our eye.<br><br>The Jordan segment has been extremely active and busy, perhaps too busy as we could use another day to experience it in a more relaxed manner.<br><br>However, the overall leadership and organization on this segment, as well as part of Egypt, has been dismal. Imaginative Traveller has really dropped the ball on this tour. Previously, tour leaders stayed with the same ...

... until the next boy is born with a Crocodile head. Still no questions arise from the people of the land as they proceed to cover said temples with Crocodile and Falcon headed blokes, don't ask just carve policy in place.<br><br>The group is treated to day long drift along the Nile on a boat which has a floor of mattresses, we lie down and watch the world go by. A quick stop allows Caroline and I to have a swim in the Nile, the water ...

... Pyramid took 20 years to build and that would mean they would have to add 800 tonnes of stone per DAY!!! I just am blown away by these structures! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_p yramids <br><br>We bought tickets to go into the Khafre Pyramid. When we went in, the guard asked for my camera. I told him no way - he was wearing regular clothes and didn't look official at all. So, then he asked for our battery and I gave it to him - after he told me he wasn't with the ...

... the rightly guided caliphs, those who believed in pragmatic sucession versus those who believed in hereditary succession, etc. etc. Khalid, who is Sunni, had some really interesting highlights in his descriptions though. First, he understated the number of Shia in the Muslim world, stating that they comprised about 10% of the world's Muslims. A much more commonly cited statistic is 15%. Maybe that's not a huge difference, but it is a 50% difference, and it only ...

... Day 1 - Next day we were up and decided to grab a cab for the day to take us around and see some of the sites that Cairo has to offer. First stop was a Bazaar where we bought some Papyrus art and then it was straight through the traffic and red traffic lights to the peaceful Coptic Christian centre of town. This was a lovely quite area where we could enjoy some tranquility in a chaotic city. The say nothing is for free in Egypt and boy are they right we ...

I'm told my photo posted below could scare small children. So hopefully moving it down will help. I'll file on last Friday's trip tomorrow, which means much more aesthetically pleasing photos. Preview: I'm leaving for the Western Desert thursday morning.