Marsa Matrouh

Plan: No plan... beautiful beaches... Hotel: http://www.beausitehotel.com/   This entry actually catches me right up to date as I am sitting in the lobby at the Beau Site Hotel typing on the first computer we have encountered on the trip so ...

Hey everyone! A quick message from Marsa Matrouh on the northwest coast of Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea! We arrived late last night after the worst bus ride of my life.... it was bad because we got the last seats on the bus, at the very back, right ...

... palm trees and many many crop plantations. It makes you wonder how a place like this could exist in the desert. The drive from Marsa Matrouh took us about 4 hours. We stopped on the way for a break. It is a very strange feeling, driving in the middle ...

... beans and falafel - yum! Then we packed into the minivan for a drive to a secluded spot of the beach.  A quick note about Marsa Matrouh:  it is reportedly a crammed resort town in the summer, but at this time of year it was deader than dead. ...

... to Alexandria, where I am right now. We left at 5 and arrived here at 5 in the afternoon. We travelled through Marsa Matrouh and Wadi Matrouh. The same way we went to the Oasis. Alexandria is considered to be the pearl of meditearania. It was built by ...

... on my merry way from El Alamein to reach it. This meant a couple of rides in small local microbuses via Daba to Marsa Matrouh, then a four hour bus ride around the Qattara Depression and across the flattest, driest and bleakest land I'd encountered in my ...

... spring holiday of Pesach. We would start with Cairo, and then continue along the North African coast from Alexandria to Marsa Matrouh, see the military cemetery and battlegrounds at El Alamein, and finally explore the remote Siwa Oasis, hidden in ...

... White Desert 2) Worker's Tombs, Luxor 3) All of Siwa Oasis 4) Catacombs, Alexandria 5) Felucca Trip, Aswan 6) Merditertanean Sea, Marsa Matrouh 7) Sunrise at Abu Simbel 8) Alabaster Mosque, Cairo 9) The Ramesseum/ Medinet Habu, Luxor 10) Egyptian ...

Plan: It takes four hours to travel from Marsa Matrouh, I think I would like to walk around this very unique, isolated city. Hotel: http://www.siwaparadise.com/index.htm (this link also, only works when copied and pasted... urg, stupid links.) When ...

... -overdue Egypt update. Well, the weekend after we got back to Cairo from Sinai, we were straight off again on the night bus to Marsa Matrouh, and on from there to the desert town of Siwa, some 50km from the Libyan border and an oasis in the middle of the ...

... dates before we had lunch at Tanta Waa restaurant at Cleopatra's Bath. Then we rushed off to the bus station and caught the bus back to Marsa Matrouh and on to Cairo, arriving home at 2am. Siwa is a place that grows on you. If you're ever in the ...

... of the 3-star resorts in Siwa and was genuinely embarrassed when he fell asleep on my shoulder. We rolled into the town of Marsa Matrouh, on the Mediterranean coast, at bout 4am and waited in the cafe for our 7am bus. Fortunately, we were entertained ...

... again.  We went straight to Morgan's apartment to take showers (none of us were willing to bathe in those rooms in Marsa Matrouh!) We ordered some food (you can have ANYTHING delivered in Cairo!) and I went straight to bed. Marianne and Ekramy went ...

... to Maadi by 1:30 to leave to go get Daryl and Morgen from school.  We left straight from there for a drive to Marsa Matrouh - a small town on the Mediterranean coast near the Libyan border.  I was not completely thrilled to be back in the car ...

... . Album 1 - Alexandria and Islamic Cairo http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32396&l=44020&id=555995194 Album 2 - Marsa Matrouh and some Siwa http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32399&l=64fb0&id=555995194 Album 3- All Siwa! ...