Blogs from Cairo, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa - page 5

As I sit here at 4:30 in the morning, jet lagged, exhausted, sore and discombobulated all I can think is “Dang, this trip is awesome so far.” It is Thursday morning, so I have been in Cairo for 2 full days. I am finally making time to sit, write and look back on the past several days. Since this is a written blog and I can’t do the cheesy television flashback music, swirling picture thing, so you will have to imagine that for yourself as we travel back to Sunday/Monday and the beginning of this adventure. The trip was uneventful until I reached London’s Heathrow airport. Due to bad weather and some confusion over where the plane was going to be de-iced at Washington Dulles, the flight was delayed over an hour and half. My connection ... read more

Woke up and realized it was the last full day of the tour. Today we would be visiting the Egyptian museum followed by a mosque and church and ending with a market visit. After breakfast we gathered in the lobby and boarded the bus for one final ride. First stop was the Egyptian museum and the first thing you noticed was the level of security. There were soldiers, machine gun posts and tanks protecting the building. Zizo did explain there had been a few successful break ins at the museum including one where the thief was trapped by the police on a bridge and proceeded to throw the artifacts into the Nile where they were subsequently lost in the water :(. We paid the final fee 85 EGP to enter the museum. Security was also heavy ... read more

Tour is starting. Felucca Odyssey is the name of the tour with Travel Talk. My original plans with Topdeck fell through so after checking around I settled on Travel Talk which gets good reviews. Flight got in from Frankfurt at 1:30AM and they were good enough to send a driver for me. I had gotten a visa beforehand but the person from Traveltalk was there to help me through immigration if need be. Driving from the airport took about 40 minutes and I got my first view of the mighty Nile on the way in. It was an impressive sight. Got to my hotel Cataracts Pyramid Resort and checked in with both the hotel and Travel Talk. The tour itself cost $400 CAD and I paid 160 British pounds as a local payment. For Egyptian tours ... read more

Egipat je jedna od rijetkih afričkih zemalja koja ima vlak… I ne samo da ima vlak nego je taj vlak nadasve udoban i brz. I tako me taj vlak doveo do egipatske prijestolnice - Kaira. Prvo što u Kairu upadne u oko je prometni kaos. Iako je takozvani Treći svijet poznat po kaosu, Kairo je nešto posebno, a vožnja kroz njega nešto ravno magiji. U Kairu živi nekih 17 milijuna duša. Tih 17 milijuna duša se kreće okolo u nekakvih 5-6 milijuna automobila ,autobusa ,motora, konjskih, magarećih, devinih zaprega i razno raznih nepoznatih prometala. Glavna odlika svakog pravog Egipatskog vozača je da se ne skida ni u kojem trenutku s trube… Tako da se trubi da bi se obznanilo da stiže, pretječe, koči, skreće, pozdravlja ili čisto da ruka bude zaposlena. U Kairu ima i bezbroj ... read more

Our flite from Cairo to Johanesburg was canceled. So we got to stay a night in Cairo. We had a long wait in the airport with buying a visa. And going throw customs and baggage We then got a tour for the next day. We got to the hotel late at night so we went strait to bed. In the morning we were late to the car because the iPod was at ronge time. We piked up the gide on the way to another tour place to ride on a horse to the pirimeds and the sphinx. Are second guide was really funny making jokes and hleping us guid the horse. He ended up thanking my lead on the horse. He guided us around the desert and told us that if we dropped anything in the ... read more