Alexandria, Egypt (day trip) 3

Today we took a day trip to Alexandria and it was a dream come true with absolutely no plans in mind for the day. We went to the bus station for our van at 830am and we drove about 2 hours to the famous city of Alexandria. When we arrived our friend Charlie gave the driver a tip of 20 Egyptian pounds and the driver started asking for more because we didn’t pay the “foreigner price” talking about me and the girls since Charlie and Hazeem are Egyptian and they also speak Arabic. Charlie told the guy to give his money back and we walked away and he followed us across the street and started arguing with the boys and threatening Charlie but he pulled out his German passport since he is lives in Germany and he told the guy “I am German you cannot attack me, I do not speak Arabic” and then he called the cops and they arrived and pulled over the driver who left right away after he called. It was quite funny actually and I am glad we were with the boys for the day because we would have been scammed badly all day in the city unfortunately.

We then walked to the famous Alexandria library and got to walk around. It was truly a sight to see and a dream of mine! The fact that the original library burned down in 48 BC has always been insane to me. The knowledge and technology that was lost back then was devastating and truly affected civilization due to the lost knowledge. The library was huge and beautiful, I am glad to have experienced it. We wanted to go to the Citadel but it was on the other side of the city and we didn’t have enough time unfortunately. It was beautiful from afar though so we still got to appreciate it.

After we went to a street market that was only seafood and I felt so lied to when I ate a fried rice thing… it had shrimp and I kind of liked it before I was told there was shrimp. I had another and tasted the shrimp and I was super bummed out since I’m not a fan of seafood. I snacked on rice and watched everyone inhale seafood. We had some leftovers so I boxed up scraps for street cats and Charlie boxed up left over food to give to someone on the street that was hungry.

After we walked around and got amazing ice cream and taught the boys how to play the card game War and we all chatted. By the time we finished it was 6pm so we took an off brand uber to the bus station. When we got to the station we found an earlier bus that was leaving 5 minutes after we arrived so we sent Hazeem to get tickets and hoped to get on the bus. While we waited we witnessed a guy arguing with the bus driver and other workers and it was a great show to watch. The guy was screaming and pointing at them in English so they called Charlie over to translate and we watched. The guy was upset because you have to pay for your bags to be on the bus (which is normal) and he was mad. While Charlie mediated another worker walked by us and he said “angry Jackie Chan” since the guy was Asian we lost it and started busting out laughing. The guy eventually got on the bus and took his bags complaining and Hazeem returned with our tickets so we boarded and took off back to Cairo.

The bus drove back was great with the AC and we all had our own seats so we got to stretch out. I learned some bad words in Arabic and said them correctly surprisingly which was fun. We then arrived back to Cairo and went back to the hostel to drop our stuff off before meeting a new friend and going out to get yummy Cinnabons. We taught our friends how to play the card game “Shit head” and devoured our cinnamon rolls. It was around 11:30 before we left and went back in for the evening to shower and sleep for the night.Leia mais