http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Egypt , Lower Egypt en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:30:50 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:30:50 +0000 Day 1 Arrive Cairo International AirportMeet assist by Go Egypt travel representative at Cairo International Airport Transfer via airconditioned modern van to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.Day 2 Giza Pyramids Memphis SakkaraBreakfast at hotel Enjoy an excursion to visit Giza Pyramids of Cheops Chephren Mykerinus the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple Proceed to visit Memphis the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-465547.html Hi everyoneSTill going on about Cairo and our time there because it's the only time we would ever go there... first we went to the Pyramids which took up most of the morning and a museum too. John thinks the pyramids are a stack of old rubble but found it interesting the history etc and fascinating because we were there and had heard about them throughout our lives. It was quite hot there http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Giza/blog-463219.html Hi everyoneWell what a full two days we had mainly in Cairo First of all we were up at 5.30am and ready to hit the buses at 6.45am which we all did about 15 busloads couldn't leave Alexandria Port until the fog lifted around 11am Horrible for a lot of people who were going to different places and had their trips cancelled.It took 3 hours to get to Cairo thank God it was an overnigh http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-463204.html UH L LEssa semana no dia 26 para ser mais exata conversei pela cam e por microfone com a Nane moa com quem vou dividir o ape. Ela me mostrou o ape inteiro. Segundo a Nane meu quarto o maior da casa pq ela gosta de quarto pequeno. AMEI meu ape. Liindu. Masss tem um porm me parece que o meu curso vai ser no campus novo que MUITO MUITO MUITO longe de onde vou morar. A Nane disse que d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-463021.html Sorry for the delay in this post. We had all of our planning done up to and including Egypt before we left but nothing after that. So once we had access to the internet most of my time has gone to making preparations for Greece and Thailand at the expense of staying on top of the blog.Our third country in Africa is Egypt. Nicolas chose this stop on our tour because of the pyramids he learned http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-462437.html SinaiOn Monday 14 Dec I arrived in Nuweiba Egypt. The ferry was pretty uneventful. There were a few fellow travelers going the same way and I got chatting with some guys doing the overlander truck thing to Cape Town and another 2 friendly guys who were just getting to the end of their trip having cycled from the UK through Europe Turkey Middle East and were heading to Cairo before flying home. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-461639.html Realmente no fcil viajar. Por motivos que at acho justo sendo o motivo 400 Dlares rs mudei a data a rota e os horrios da viagem. Como podem ver pelo mapa Amsterdam ficou para uma prxima oportunidade. O esquema agora esse vo pela Lufthansa no dia 13 saindo de Guarulhos as 1340 com chegada em Munique as 520 horrio local logo aps as 830 saio de Munique para o Cairo. Chego l as http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-461079.html Poissss bem no fim mudamos o dia rs. o Dia de viagem 12 com chegada no Cairo no dia 13. Ainda vem um plus vou passar o dia 6 horas no total passeando por Amsterdam. Holandaaa...aqui vou eu Uhuuu.O que vai acontecer quando eu chegar no Cairo Bem tenho que ir no dia 14 cedim pra Universidade fazer toda a papelada. Mas aaannntes no dia 13 claro que mesmo cansada vou passear um pouco pela http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-460587.html Como as pessoas esto pedindo Orkut e qualquer ferramenta virtual para saber o que acontece na minha aventura decidi fazer um blog. Pois bem para saberem onde est tudoTo procurando passagem. As que achei por enquanto no me agradaram muito horrios e outros fatores. Ento pedi para uma moa que trabalha em uma agncia de turismo e que amiga da minha me para pesquisar pra mim. At l http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-460442.html Hello Danielle Thank you very much for given me your email and for a lovely day actually it's a great one. It's really amazing because my love for your people is growing up everyday but actually you deserve this love. Really you're people who God love them more than others. Whatever I write whatever I say I can't express how I really feel and what you're really deserved. And there's no way we can http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-459819.html I awake well in advance of my 6am bus to Cairo. Despite the erroneous directions of my hostel's chef one of the myriad Mohammeds I meet in Egypt whose ponderous and distracted style of speech makes him appear permanently stoned I successfully find and board the bus. I plonk myself down next to an American girl A not out of any great desire to converse with another traveller at my least ale http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-458350.html The Greater Eid feast was on at the end of November a 5 day public holiday which celebrates both the completion of the pilgrimage to Mecca and the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son. We decided to spend at least the weekend in Cairo as it is difficult to find things to do in Sadat at the best of times let alone when nothing is open. Adel tricked us into minding the hospital on his be http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/blog-457463.html Sorry all that I havenrsquot written practically all of November. I would give a ton of excuses but why dwell on my imperfections Now I canrsquot even remember the last event I talked about so Irsquoll just go over the last 3 weeks. On Friday the 6th a group of us went to Tanis. Tanis was an Ancient Egyptian capital during the 20th Dynasty. Several 21st and 22nd Dynasty pharaohs were burie http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-457413.html Een heleboel gebeurd sinds mijn laatste blog.. Ben ondertussen in level 4 geraakt met weliswaar dezelfde leerkracht uit level 2 die keihard is in het geven van huistaken voorstellingen en vooral binnen 2 weken het examen... Het Arabisch begint moeilijk te worden. We hebben zowat alle basisgrammatica gezien wat niet zo simpel is vooral de verleden tijd van de vele vele werkwoorden die we al gez http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-457311.html Though I wished we could have spent a lot more time in Israel I was looking forward to seeing the Pyramids in Egypt. All six of us were off the boat before the buses left and had to walk out of the port over a bridge where the security detail six or more trucks full of soldiers carrying machine guns to escort the tour buses to Cairo. Our passports were checked again as we left to meet our rep http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-457157.html There is no question that what attracts people to Egypt at the moment tends to be the past. So far we haven't seen a great deal of the really old stuff that is scheduled to happen in the next couple of weeks but it is still impossible not to feel that the past is important here. It doesn't begin and end with the pyramids though. There are echoes of the past in a lot of areas.The first time we http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-455097.html The friendliest most hospitable people I ever met and cairo was an absolute BLASTIt never sleeps and the buzz around the markets at night with the mosques people traffic it's just so surreal.Was 2 weeks of absolute joyeurail pass reviews http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-452497.html Owkee de laatste tijd niet zoveel succes gehad met taxichauffeurs en zal eventjes uit de doeken doen wat er zoal kan misgaan als je een taxi neemt in Cairo... tussen haakjes deze verhalen spelen zich af in welgeteld 2 dagen tijd.......1 Omstreeks 18u30 neem ik een taxi richting mijn appartement m.a.w. file drukte iedereen wil precies naar nzelfde plaats. Bon ik stap dus in een taxi en http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-451021.html After a nice and relaxing vaca in Santorini we were off to the hustle and bustle of Cairo.Cairo is definetly a unique location and we like it. This was our second visit here. I love the arabic language and the people are very helpful and friendly especially when there's potential for a tip. Some Pictures from our swealtering vaction in Cairo. Gabriela http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-449925.html I had a very busy 2 additional days in Cairo. My first roommate to show up was American that had been doing peace core in western Africa for the last 2 years. I ended up going out my second day in Cairo with her and her uncle. Our first stop was the citadel which happened to be my first mosque that I visited as well. The view was very impressive sort of. Cairo is very polluted and it is ver http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Giza/blog-449476.html