Maydān Ţahrān

Today we leave Athens to make our way to Egypt. We left the Accomadation once we were all packed after doing some major washing!

We went for an easy breakfast at Picky Brunch & Specialty Coffee, some much needed eggs and avo was on the cards!

We got the train out to the airport, got checked in & got our tax refund back from some very ‘lovely’ ladies, they definitely had to get some customer service skills.

We arrived in Egypt and got to fly over Cairo! We were amazed at the site of Cairo and it’s vastness.
Clearing immigration was a breeze, as long as you have your 25USD each and a guide from Intrepid no one batters an eye lid.

We met another couple that are doing the Egypt part of the Intrepid tour and they came in the same car with us to the hotel.

Cairo is a very interesting place, you can’t really find the right words for it! The noises from all the cars tooting at each other, the driving is insane there is no lines just horns, to cross the road you walk with dominance and hope you don’t get run over.
Then the buildings, everything has some desert dust on it and it goes from luxury resorts, to normal buildings, to buildings you think may be getting torn down but people are living in!

Once at the hotel we checked in and had a chat to the hotel staff. They told us the area is safe but don’t trust anyone that talks to us trying to show us something or help us in any way. So we walked to McDonalds which was an interesting 15 minute walk! We had to cross two major streets - tuck behind a local and hope they want to survive today - Katie got a wink from a guy in a car but he still didn’t let her cross in-front of his car. We also had a little girl try and get our attention but she worked out it wasn’t going to work eventually.

We made it to McDonalds to get Katie her western fix.

The walk back was somewhat similar with a whistle at Katie and the usual beggars around. We grabbed some water from local mini market and headed back to the hotel.

We decided to keep it low key and just have a night in and get used to Egypt.Читать далее