A Travel Blog entry by catherine647 from Giza, Egypt
... old, whether or not they actually are. Everything in Cairo looks like its been painted in mud. We're spending the night at MenaHouse, an Oberoi hotel that used to be a hunting lodge a hundred years ago. One last splurge before we leave Egypt. We get an ...
A Travel Blog entry by diannemurray from Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India
... ; A$1 = 49 rupees After, we walked around the active commercial area near the Oberoi, looking for food, finally negotiating a non-zinger meal at KFC, at a price cheap enough by Western standards, but expensive ...