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    • Traveler80 Tage Wir und Amera
      Day 6

      Ausflug zu den Piramyden von Gize

      December 27, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Das Schiff hält in Alexandria an um uns zu unserer Reise zu den Pyramiden raus zu lassen 👍😀es geht 3.5 Std. Nach Kairo ins Museum und anschliessend weiter nach Gize zu den 3 Pyramiden es war Eindrücklich und Schön.
      Aber ich sag euch der Car Chaufeur hatte seine mühe mit der Schaltung ( die arme Kupplung)🤣🤣🤣
      Die Sphinx durften wir auch no Begrüssen dann noch ein kurzer Stopp bei einer Papier Produktion und los gehts zum Schiff.
      Kurz vor dem auslaufen Pot Said bei nacht😀      Read more

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    • LadyandtrampEgypt for 1 Month, then Mexico
      14

      Cairo's Egyptian Museum

      December 17, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

      While waiting for the train, we had time in the afternoon to visit the museum. It is only a 5 minute walk away. Mind you we had to face the crazy traffic! Luckily several Egyptians offered to take our hands, haha, and walk us across the streets. They are only 2 traffic lights that we have seen in our time here and one is near the museum. Thank heavens.

      We heard that previously the museum had been absolutely packed with artifacts but with the pending opening of the new Giza museum, a lot of artifacts have been moved over there already. We found that going to the museum on our own, was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours. We especially loved the King Tut display. For some reason, we didn’t have to pay to take photos, but once again there were several rooms with precious artifacts that we were not allowed to take photos in.

      The museum had a lovely outside restaurant so we ate a tasty spaghetti bolognese lunch there while thinking of an old family friend (Italian) who is in her last hours of life. Here’s to a good life in Canada, Auntie Maria.      Read more

    • TravelerItaly and Egypt 2022
      11
      Day 28

      Cairo - moved to a different hotel

      October 19, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      Fairly relaxing day. This morning our official tour part ended, and we moved to a hotel in the centre of the city to be easy to get to places. In the interval between checking out, and checking in we first visited a school friend of Amr’s - also called Amr Ibrahim! - who lives in a beautiful apartment just round the corner from the Marriot. The building is one of those lovely ones built in the 1930s and right facing the Nile. It was like walking into another era with furniture from his parents - almost a museum. We had tea there and pastries, and then moved on with the second Amr as well to the Gezira Club which is very exclusive now, but Amr (both) and Omnia have been members since high school, and we went in as visitors. We sat outside under the trees and had one of the beautiful lemon juices they make, and very happily filled in the time between hotels.

      Went back to the Marriot and had a bit of a wait - Egyptian time - for the mini bus to take us and our luggage. Not a huge distance, but much too far to walk with bags - even for us! - along the very uneven footpaths and risking life and limb crossing the roads! Now we are staying in the Steigenberger for 3 nights, and then moving to stay with Omnia in her flat. The others will stay on at the hotel. Omnia has organised some excursions - tomorrow we will visit the Islamic area of Cairo, and visit some mosques not on the tourist route, and on Saturday there is a visit to the Coptic area.

      Tonight everyone did their own thing. I think people have enjoyed the Egyptian experience, and all us oldies have managed the quite strenuous activities!! But it is good to have a break…

      We had dinner with another school friend of Amr’s - Magdi - and his wife and Omnia. Quite a posh dinner in a French restaurant in a boat on the Nile. Lovely evening. Not French food as in France, but I had a beautifully cooked fillet steak, perfect medium rare. Amr and I walked there from our new hotel (the restaurant was just near the old one!!) which entailed ducking across busy roads at peak hour….I used to find this an adventure, but think I am a bit over it now…just getting around anywhere in Cairo is a battle - either you sit in traffic and take hours to get a short distance, or walk into the busy roads…Peter and Louise started off with us just for a walk, but waved us goodbye when we plunged into second lot of cars…I can understand!!      Read more

    • TravelerItaly and Egypt 2022
      11
      Day 29

      Another Cairo day

      October 20, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

      A little weary to start, but it turned into a magical day. Omnia had organised a minibus to transport us to and from the Islamic area, and a wonderful guide - a professor in Islamic medieval history and architecture. We left early - you have to pick the moment here, after the school traffic (school starts at 7am) and before the commuter traffic..Pinpoint timing, and our drive was relatively easy - i.e. not standstill gridlock. Met our guide, and she led us through such interesting buildings, with history and background that we would never have found or known. The mosques we were hoping to see were closed for renovation, but there are so many amazing buildings anyway, with beautiful Islamic decoration…a complex which was mausoleum, hospital, school…

      We stopped for a tea break at one point, and were each delivered a little pot of tea and a plate of fresh mint….just delicious! We finally ended with lunch in the same place where we ate on the tour’s Islamic market day (so we knew what we wanted to order from past experience!) and it is all amongst the bazaar shops and we did a little shopping after before getting the bus back to the hotel. Angela sadly was feeling a bit seedy and didn’t come (sad as she would have loved it)…most people have had a touch of the funny tummy, but Omnia and Amr are handing out pills, and most not too dramatic! I had a little way back, but it started in Italy, so can’t blame Egypt!! All totally fine now…

      We got back in the early afternoon and everyone did their own thing for the rest of the day. Omnia, Amr and I went to visit the wife and daughter of their cousin who we will be visiting in Kuala Lumpur next week. They are back in Cairo as the daughter is in university here in her final year. Had a wonderful home cooked meal with them and a very nice visit. We took an Uber there, and got a taxi back as it was easy to hail one…a hair raising ride - no seatbelts and we were actually speeding between intersection jams…as I said before, getting round in Cairo is a complicated and difficult business!!      Read more

    • TravelerItaly and Egypt 2022
      Day 30

      Yet another Cairo day

      October 21, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ 🌙 20 °C

      This morning after breakfast across the road at a café called La poire - which has THE best coffee (and even has flat white!!), even including Italy, so that is a real compliment….we all met in the lobby (actually not Sally and John) and Amr and I shepherded the herd across the road to the museum. It is just a stone’s throw from the hotel, but does entail crossing a busy road. It is Friday, which is like Sunday here, and there were many people visiting the museum, and many large groups. We felt smug to be individuals wandering round, and could dart to where there wasn’t a crowd. Arranged a meeting place and we all wandered and had a lovely time, filling in the gaps from the last visit when we went as part of the tour.

      Then we all met at 3 as Omnia invited everyone to her apartment for “high tea”, and some of her friends came too. It was lots of fun and a highly successful but the stressful part (for Amr) was getting people there and back. We are used to walking there in the past, but it is too far and difficult (with the road crossings and uneven potholed paths) for most of our friends, so amr organised 3 carloads of people….had to explain where (addresses are hard to explain here apparently, as the government changed street names which muddles Google - I think that was the problem, or some difficulty when there wasn’t an Arabic speaker in the car!). It is all an adventure, but stressful for Amr trying to make everything run smoothly.

      We all got there safe and sound, and it was lovely to see their apartment again, which we hadn’t stayed in since the early 90s. Omnia has done great renovations and it looks very good. Then we had the same procedure for getting home to the hotel…this time a complication as the first Uber with Evie, Robin, Sally and John went to the wrong Steigenberger hotel - or was on its way to it, way out near the pyramids!!! They realised something was amiss when they found themselves driving out of the city and fortunately it did get sorted out before going the whole way and they were delivered back to the city central one near Tahrir Square!! Phew…but Amr was stressed even more and once it was over we sat at the bar by the pool with Peter and Louise and had a bottle of wine. Now finally settling down and unwinding….      Read more

    • Egypt
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      Day 4

      Egyptian museum

      December 6, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F

      I had what I consider dinner for breakfast 😁. We spent the day at the museum learning about Egyptian history and art. When a new tomb is discovered it is opened and not entered for 2 weeks. Nobody shaves their face before going in b/c someone shaved once and the bacteria in the air from the tomb entered their skin where they had a cut on their face and killed them. Finished the day watching the sun set over the Nile river and the hauntingly beautiful city from the rooftop.Read more

    • TravelerKenya

      Day 1 - Cairo - Unexpected Stop

      October 7, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      Missed the connecting flight in Cairo due to a delay from Tel Aviv. After 6 hrs I got into a hotel room at 5 AM. Very poor service from Egypt Air. As I finally arrived in Nairobi, also my checked-in luggage was missing 🙄Read more

    • TravelerBeachvolleyball in Afrika
      1
      Day 13

      more Touripics 📸

      August 28, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

      ... mehr Eindrücke, wie die unfertigen Häuser, Fotos, die jeder Tourist in Gizeh machen sollte und mehr "alte Seinhaufen".

      Video: in dem typischen Ägyptischen Restaurant gibts traditionelle Spinat-Suppe, die sehr speziell serviert wird 🥣Read more

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    • TravelerDie Schätze Ägyptens/Türkeis
      1
      Day 8

      Kairo: Geschichts- und Kulturexplosion

      April 8, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

      Am Morgen kurz vor 9 Uhr habe ich mich vor dem ägyptischen Museum in die Schlange gestellt (9 Uhr öffnet es, aber die Leute aus meinem Hostel haben mir empfohlen ein Paar Minuten früher da zu sein, weil Punkt 9 die Reisebusse kommen und wie wahr, es war wirklich voll!). Hier erwartete mich ein wirklich unglaubliches Repertoire an historischen Schätzen, so viele Skulpturen, Schriftstücke, Überreste aus der Pharaonenzeit, unfassbar und das beeindruckendste: Die Maske das Tutanchamun! Diese Eindrücke musste ich erstmal kurz verarbeiten, mein Historikerherz schlägt höher 😍. Anschließend besuchte ich das Koptische Viertel mit der hängenden Kirche (das Schiff ist über einen Durchgang aufgehängt, daher sieht es so aus, als würde sie schweben) und danach zur Zitadelle von Saladin (eine der wenigen erhaltenen Festungen) mit der Muhammad-Ali-Moschee. Mit beeindruckenden Moscheen geht es auch weiter an diesem Tag (wobei die folgenden keine Kuppel sondern einen Platz haben), denn ich besuchte noch die Ibn Tulun-, die Al Azhar- und die Al Hakim Moschee. Anschließend geht es direkt durch die Souks auf dem Markt Chan el-Chalili, quirlige Gassen, auf denen ich alle 10m angesprochen werde etwas zu kaufen, aber sehr viel Charme und Charakter hat der Markt und ich kaufe sogar etwas: Shishatabak für 80 Cent die Packung. Die Oper und der Fernsehturm von Kairo runden den Tag ab 😊. Und dann kommt die Abendgestaltung. Zuerst gehe ich mit den Leuten aus meinem Hostel auf eine Dachterrasse und wir genießen bei Cocktails den tollen abendlichen Ausblick über Kairo. Anschließend feiern wir bei starken Bässen eine Bootsparty und cruisen über den Nil in der Nacht 🥳.Read more

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    • TravelerEuro Year
      Day 172

      Museum and touching the nile

      October 26, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

      Today we continued sightseeing ancient Egypt with a trip to the museum. It was very crowded but was quite cool. It was filled with mummies and sarcophaguses and statues, some of which were from as far back as 3000BC! My favourite artefacts were the older sarcophaguses, theyre carved out of big singular slabs of dark rock and don't have much going on in terms of decoration but they're so striking to look at, i definitely understand why rick owens got one for his home. Other standouts were the statues of the egyptian gods (the hippo one was my favourite, she is the God of the home and parents would ask her to make sure their kids didn't get eaten by snakes and crocodiles), Tutankhamen's treasure (his sarcophegus is by far the best preserved, it's so shiny and has jewels and golden carvings all over it), and the massive mummified crocodiles. Once we left the museum we roamed around for a bit and realised that there isn't actually that much to do in cairo so we ended up just going back home. While we were roaming around I managed to touch the nile which was something I came to Egypt wanting to do. Unfortunately it's not very accessible so I had to run through a building site and touch it in a place where there was a bunch of rubbish but it had to be done.

      On our last day we went to a restaurant overlooking the nile for lunch :).

      A few concluding observations about cairo as a city:
      The roads are extremely wide(sometimes 10+ lanes) and busy which makes walking around the city quite a nerve jangling experience.

      The people in general kinda suck (always hassle you and just loiter around in intimidating groups) they actually weren't that bad to me tho because they were all a lot more interested in spencer with his long blonde hair. I found if I just walked 5m behind him I could avoid all the drama ahahah.

      There are no vegetarian options to eat but the food is really really nice (kebab type stuff). One of the restaurants we went to served us a salad with the Salsa dressing in a cup, I think you're supposed to take a bite of your kebab and then take a sip of the dressing so that everything doesn't get all soggy which is pretty clever.      Read more

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