Travel Blog Photos from Alexandria, Egypt (1,848)
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Alexandria is different to the other parts of Egypt we have visited. The Greek and Italian influence can be seen in the people and they speak with a different accent to other parts of Egypt. It is not as English friendly. The people seem to ...
Arrived in Alexandria having slept fairly well on the train. Checked into our hotel right on the corniche...very flash! Took the tram to Fort Qaitbay and goofed around with the locals there...mostly roving bands of young men ...
... through eternal rose-tinted glasses, and Alexandria is most definitely one of those. The home of pharaohs and conquerors, Alexandria was for centuries Egypt's gateway and the centre of the known world, and so, perhaps fittingly, this was where I first set ...
I hadn't even considered diving when heading up to Alexandria, but wandering along the Corniche that first sunny day yielded and interesting advertisement pointing out the 'Submerged Antiquities' to be found in the harbour. Not long after I stumbled on ...