Cairo Travel Blogs

After four days of hard work and tasty, yet tiring business dinners, it was time for something fun. Today was the last day my Dutch colleague Peter would be in Cairo, so we decided for tonight we should definitely do something special. Especially since we hadn’t really been outside of our Heliopo…

A day off to myself. "Phew!" At last.  I chat to Sarah (Australia) and Pierre-Marc (Canada) some cool people staying at King Tut's too.  Sarah's still suffering from what I'll refer to in my time in Egypt as Cairo Shock.  Only a matter of an hour into the city and she'd had her bags …

I had always wanted to visit Egypt.  There are millions of things to see there and two days is not enough, but I did what I could in that amount of time. I left Indianapolis on Thursday afternoon on a Continental Express Embraer 145 to Newark.  The NYC area was under air traffic control …

I'm back in Cairo....what a journey. The day long snorkel trip in Hurghada was fantastical!  We were aboard a beautiful yaught and some some amazing coral!  We were warned not to touch the coral while snorkelling but not told why.  A few people quickly found out why when they accide…

When I was in 5th grade I dressed up as an Egyptian princess for Halloween. I had the coolest (and my most favorite ever) costume, and my mom made it from scratch. It was a white sheath dress with a gold collar that even had fake gems glued on. There was a wraparound skirt that clipped in the front…

Wake-up was at 4:30 for a 6:00 pickup.  We were on the bus with a group from Insight.  Because we had added the extra days, Uniworld was not responsible for our airport transfer.  We had the option of arranging transfer with the concierge or of booking something with Spring Tours, th…

In the second day we went to the Egyptian museum,the citadel,Al-Azhar park,then the girls met with my two freinds Anja and Basma...they went to the islamic cairo and see some mosques...and tried their first Shisha and egyptian drinks... then we left to luxor at 12am....

A single move you make has the only one consequence- you sweat 3 times more than you drink. However, once Ra begins His journey to the Underworld (or in plain English- once the sun starts to set), that little dash of life becomes a huge stream. A stream, which us, non-Egyptian people wouldn’t wan…

Move to centre. Got russia invite, coptic cairo and other mosque Dinner, studied Russia invite waited for ages. Internet to book train, plane etc McDuck, homeMoved to Bedouin Hotel, but sickSlept and used netSick again all day - net and maccassick in bed - net and films

We first went to the Cairo  Museum and saw statues, royal mummies, and King Tut's gold laden sarcophagus and all the treasures found in his tomb that were not on tour. Ridiculously unbelievable! It pretty much occupied the half of the 2nd floor of the museum! Then off we were to the pyramids …

The sufi dance concert is in "Wikalet El-Ghoury or El-Ghoury Agency"..its an amazing place in El-Hussien in islamic cairo...and Here is where Sultan Qonsuah Al Ghoury, last of the Memluk sultans, used to host foriegn merchants. Each merchant was given five rooms above each other, from ground f…

Up at 7AM b/c of Ann's alarm, we got ready and walked the four blocks to the metro. Quiet, still, there were no cars around and just a few sleepy tourist policemen. One lazily picking lint off his uniform, the other leaning his head against his rifle. We entered the train station. The floors gleame…

Meanwhile, back in Aswan, Batman prepares to escape from the clutches of the dreaded tourist police jokers by leaping onto the BatBoat... Well, perhaps it wasn't quite the Batboat, but we did sail a Felucca (small single-masted sailboat) down the Nile for 2 days, traveling at a very leisurely p…

For New Year's Eve, Ammie and I decided to splurge and stay at the Mena House, a former Sultan's Palace turned elite hotel.  Being that we had Egyptian residency visas we got the "Egyptian rate" for the cheap-o room, which was INSANELY cheap at $50/night (normally it would have cost hundreds o…

So is this it??? My Egypt Lonelyplanet still looked new, had that characteristic new-book fragrance and my stickies were all in place of some of the attractions. So is this REALLY it? Is it ALL over? Personally, for me, there was a voice in my head going "Du-bai Du-bai Du-bai DU-BAI... DUUUUBAAAAI"…