Victoria Hotel Cairo

... in Greece. Just to add some adventure we spent early January in Egypt. After 27 hours travel time we arrived in Sydney (after our hotel locked up for the night). On January 31, we left our friends home near Melbourne for was to be a short flight to ...

... !).  It was frightening, and exhilarating, and laughter inducing, and just CRAZY!!  I was relieved when we finally arrived at the Victoria Hotel and I could get out.  We had had to pay a EGP5 fee to leave the airport so I owed 75 unless ...

... until she pulled out her pashmina and covered herself up (most amusing for me to witness) We arrived at our hotel - The Victoria Hotel, which looked a little grubby on the outside, but we were welcomed by smiling security guards adn the house manager. ...

We arrived in Cairo on Saturday morning and went to the Victoria Hotel via a wild taxi ride. We explored around the hotel taking in the sights and sounds of a busy city. Found St Mark's Coptic Cathedral just a few minutes from the hotel. On Sunday we ...

... passenger in the transfer from the airport to the hotel and the rep gave me a little history as we drove through Cairo. I checked into my hotel and was shown to my room where I met my roommate, a fellow American from Philadephia.  We decided to have ...

... way they dress. The young women where skin tight tops that fully cover their arms, with hot pink being the favourite colour, then put western clothes over the top. Quite a different look!  Footnote: Historic Cairo is a UNESCO World Heritage ...

... I got up to have some continental breakfast (2 buns and some egyptian tea) I headed off to find my next hotel. Stepping out into downtown Cairo with only my bags was overwhelming to say the least, not to mention the culture shock. Luckily some egyptian ...

... that when you picture the pyramids, you imagine they are in the middle of the desert, but you can see them from the highway in Cairo and the endless desert behind them. Next we saw the Sphinx, which was awesome. Like the tower of Pisa, we took some funny ...

... be fun and a great opportunity for me to travel Europe and grow up... On Sunday Ghandi took Amy, Tom and I to the 'football' (soccer) @ Cairo Stadium. The two favorite Cairo teams played - and I can't for the life of me remember their names. But 'our ...

... one more morning in Athens...even finally purchasing my very first souvenir!...I left for the airport and my flight from Athens to Cairo!  The flight was pretty good.  Not too rough and only a little less than 2 hours.  However in that ...

... I think she just wants to feed it to the stray cats, and there are a lot of them! Then we drive back to downtown Cairo and Ahmed finds the hotel for us, right in the shopping area! So we arrange to meet in the morning at 8am and Ahmed leaves to fight his ...

... to meet up with them the next day and it being Friday, their holiday day they offer to take us around Cairo Egyptian style. Back at the hotel the receptionist also tells us he has connections in the 'travel industry' and can organise our tickets for us ...

... agent. Adding Africa to our itinerary had originally been Irina's idea, but she was thinking more of places like Lamu Island, Victoria Falls and the Serengeti, not the Sudan. Arvid added Ethiopia and the idea of going from Cairo to Cape Town just ...

... we passed a family of baboons that were sharing the footpath. Our final tourist activity was to have English High Tea at Victoria Falls Hotel. We spent half an hour drying off and then took the walking track from the Park to the hotel, passing tourist ...

... more about my own life and my purpose. When we got to Vic Falls, it was dark already and we headed straight to Victoria Falls Backpackers. Karma, Toby and I went to town and had sadza ad beef and watched Japan-Denmark game. Afterwards, we went to ...

... and in no time we were on our way through the hectic traffic that has to be seen to be believed.  The Airports at Cairo appear to be under reconstruction. We landed at a terminal that looked to have been built in the seventies. It was completely ...

... quite overwhelming. I think you would need weeks to just scratch the surface. Next day, we were able to hang out back at the Victoria Hotel, even though we had checked out in the morning, until it was time for our bus to take us to the train station for ...

... gone and tried to catch up on some sleep that we had missed on the Death Train last night! We're just back at our hotel in Cairo now and all getting ready for our last night together.  We're heading out to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner tonight, which ...

...  crazy driver (the Chinese have nothing on these Egyptians) and he asked me to move in with me after establishing I was alone in Cairo, despite my best efforts to explain to him that I have a "boyfriend" in Australia - even though I dont. ANYWAY he ...

... , we had an exit row and managed to find space for our bags in the overhead bin, so it was all good. We arrived in Cairo, luckily, to a Contiki guide standing there waiting for us.  We got our bags and hopped in the shuttle bus to head to the hotel. ...