Meridien Heliopolis

... , I found a place to play basketball from talking to this guy, and I cruised over there after getting home from Le Meridien. Normally, this club, the El-Gizira, is pretty busy with soccer, clay-court tennis, the swimming pool (which inexplicably had a ...

... somewhere in Europe. Anyway.. it's a definite must to do in Egypt when I come back. Our hotel was located in the Heliopolis area, which is the nicest neighborhood. At first we planned to do the dinner/cruise thing, but the trip to Egyptian museum ...

... of the World it is an incredibly significant place in world history. We started the day today with a wonderful breakfast at our hotel, Le Meridien.  We LOVE this hotel.  I don't know if that is because it is the best by far of the other ...

... the afternoon, my friend met me at the airport and from there moving in slowly in the heat and the traffic to our hotel, Le Meridien, just nearby and with view towards the pyramids. I just love to take in the pulse of what each country, each city ...

... chaps to be genial and helpful throughout our holiday in Egypt.   We careered our way through the Cairo traffic from Heliopolis to Giza with a commentary from Mohamed on places of interest on the wayside and what we could  expect ...

Cairo - I can best summarize it as a very interesting city that is loaded with hassles.  The city is very large very polluted, and very densely packed.  It reminded me of an Arab New York City with its seemingly endless streets filled with ...

Andrew, Amy, Doug and Sarah go to Egypt... Arrived in Cairo via Zurich on Swiss Air about 12pm. Getting a visa was interesting. There were people milling about everywhere and there were no signs. We eventually worked out we had to go to one of the ...

We are now back safe and sound from a brilliant trip to Egypt. We went on a 6 day tour and visited busy, busy, busy Cairo, and of course visited all the Pyramids, as well as Tutankamun's treasures in the Egyptian Museum. Went shopping in the hectic ...

Crowds, begging, poverty, in-your-face street vendors, dirt, radically different culture are all issues that I grew up with in Mexico. Indeed, I’ve encountered it in other Latin American countries and to a lesser extent in the Caribbean. When we ...

Out of the hotel by noon and off to the airport. Had walked for about 2 hours so got rid of any excess energy.  Waited around for 3 hours for our flight and had Hightower sitting in the aisle seat.  After 2 movies and an episode of Glee we ...

All, Cairo is indeed a city of great contrasts.  We had some extra time today and were able to sit by the pool.  And yes, we saw a chunky man in a pink Speedo not far from women in full-on burkas!  Dor those who don't know ...

As today was a day of travel and relatively uneventful, Dianne is allowing me to post today's blog. (Plus it is 3 in the morning and she is fast asleep) No worries, I will gladly relinquish the reins back to her again tomorrow.  Please forgive ...

Deja les derniers jours de notre voyage...demain dimanche nous allons enfin visiter les grandes pyramides et le Sphynx et nous partons pour le Canada lundi.  Le Caire est une ville ou il y a beaucoup de pauvrete et generalement pas tres propre, ...

After a long night getting ready and leaving for the FRA airport we woke up around 4am to be a t the airport at 5 for our flight to Egypt via Rome with AlItalia. Well or flight to Rome was canceled. They moved us to their flight to Milan leaving 1.5hrs ...