 | Peace In Purgatory
2009-10-23, Cairo, Egypt. By: mala | | When you expect hell and land in purgatory, you can't help but think "hey, this isn't that bad!" True, Cairo is filthy and loud. The air quality would kill a sufferer of anything beyond mild asthma. A... |
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 | Cairo
2009-01-02, Cairo, Egypt. By: saffa2 | | Bursting with ancient history as well as present culture, Cairo eludes a magnetism which draws visitors from all over the globe. This mainstream city is sealed with so many charming entities, and pers... |
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 | Day 5: Back to Cairo
2008-10-26, Cairo, Egypt. By: manal | | We all got up pretty reasonable time and headed back to Cairo. That took most of the day… but we headed back to the Hyatt… I went and got a little pampering in one of their salons/spa, and ate dinner... |
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 | Day 2
2007-09-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | Awoke around 10am - had heard the 'call to prayer' earlier - but wasn't sure what time though. Had an Ok sleep, bit worried about the moggies, but all fine.
Had a look around before catching the fr... |
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| Day 1
2007-09-21, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | 1pm - Papa Flan not happy. He's not happy cos we're leaving our key in its hidy hole. He's also not happy cos we won't be at the airport 13hrs ahead of our flight.
Airport packed. We'd checked in y... |
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| Day 0
2007-09-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: debnic | | Thursday 21st September 2007
Let's just say this day didn't exist......! |
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 | Ramadan, Starbucks and Roadtrips
2008-09-11, Cairo, Egypt. By: MariaT | | So the plan was always to come back to Cairo for a few days on my way back to Thailand and I've had such a wicked time! Right now Muslims are celebrating Ramadan where they fast from sunrise to sunset... |
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 | Trip statistics- Egypt
2008-06-20, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | TRIP STATS- EGYPT
Days traveling- 15
Trip highlights- Tam
~Luxor, Dahab
Trip highlights- Ian
~Dahab
Favorite activities- Tam
~Mt Sinai, Abu Simbel
Favorite activities- Ian
~ Mt ... |
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| Rain in Cairo!
2008-06-08, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | Here are a few interesting facts I learned about Egypt today-
- Egypt´s name is not really Egypt. The correct name is "Misr". "Egypt" was a name used by the Greeks.
- 94% of Egypt is desert.
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| Cairo!
2008-06-07, Cairo, Egypt. By: tamtam31 | | We landed in Cairo at 1:30am. I was terrified that our arranged airport transfer would not arrive...but there was Ahmed, our tour leader for Egypt, waving excitedly from the sidelines when we walked ... |
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 | Of pyramids
2008-04-14, Cairo, Egypt. By: juliac | | I'm so tired. We had to get up before 5 on Sunday for our flight and on our first night in Egypt last night it was so noisy that I couldn't sleep. Calls to prayer at 3 in the morning, never-ending hoo... |
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 | For the love of god where are the shawarmas
2007-11-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: frankieboy | | Egypt
After clearing customs without any problems I ran the usual gauntlet of cab drivers that were aggressive and pesky but not as bad as Morocco. I settled on a price and thought we would be read... |
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 | Day 5 - Let the Tour Commence!!!
2007-08-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell | | Had an early start at 8am to go the the pyramids of Giza, but we'd been there already so Hannah, Brendan & I sat outside some posh hotel for 3 hours while the others went. It was a good idea to go ear... |
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| Day of Rest
2007-08-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell | | Finally met up with our tour guide, had a bit of a relaxed day today as we were waiting for another group to show up who were coming down to meet us from the Middle East.
Ended up goin to the Moham... |
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 | "The Inter-not Cafe"
2007-08-10, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell | | Today we added another member of our group, Sandrafrom Switzerland. All 6 of us set off to the Islamic part of town to a bizzare at a place callled Khan-Al-Khalili. Looked like a real slum when we got... |
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| Day 2 - "Never Fear Camels Are Here"
2007-08-10, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell | | We had originaly planned to get an early start toady, but it didn't really work out that way. We woke up about 10:30, then went for our egg thinking brendan must have already gone. Turns out he arose ... |
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| "Beep Beep Beep"
2007-07-23, Cairo, Egypt. By: sdell | | Day 1 - The Sun Hotel Cairo
Finally arrived at cairo airport around 1am local time. 25 degrees at night (about as hot as our summer days).
Queued up for immigration only to find we needed a vis... |
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 | Emails from Egypt & Jordon
2001-05-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: philstone | | "He who has not seen Cairo has not seen the world, it's dust is gold, it's Nile is a wonder...She is the mother of the world" - according to a tale in the 1001 Nights anyway.
Personally I've seen ... |
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 | The Capitol
1999-01-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: deldib | | The nearby capitol which I only like to visit once in a while for a taste of a more hectic city life. The streets are always crowded and one needs to plan way ahead when going anywhere. Otherwise the ... |
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 | I went to Cairo
2006-08-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: EmInOz | | Ok I know this is long over due, but it's here now so read it!!!! hahaha... Ok for real... so I went to Cairo it was AMAZING!!!! We were there for 2 1/2 weeks and worked really hard. Our first project... |
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 | Bloody Egypt!
2006-10-17, Cairo, Egypt. By: TeamHoki | | Farewell Jordan, welcome Egypt!
An easy slide into Egypt way of life with 4 days chilling on the Red Sea in Dahab. Chinny and I started our advanced diving certificates right away and were not d... |
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 | Journal #1
2006-10-17, Cairo, Egypt. By: ctraveller | | “Alive and well, so far…”
To begin with, so much has already occurred on this trip since departure back on Sept. 28/06. Initially, I intended to be posting frequently on this site but have found t... |
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 | Number 3
2006-10-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: spmurdoch | | We climbed and road a camel up Mt. Sinai. What an awesome experience! We will tell you more later. We have now arrived in Cairo and saw the pyramids as we drove to our hotel. They are HUGE! We ar... |
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 | A change of pace
2006-09-18, Cairo, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | I think it is appropriate to say that my time here in Cairo has entered a new phase ushered in with my Arabic language classes. Where we used to take life a day at a time and be toured around by vari... |
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| A land of contrast
2006-09-02, Cairo, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | As I took the time today to write in my journal the various adventures and lessons from the week, I realized that we have been busy doing quite a few things here in Cairo. I’ll touch on a few of the ... |
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| A week in Cairo
2006-08-26, Cairo, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | It has been approximately 1 week. 1 week of exciting new discoveries, experiences and many realizations. Let me tell you about some of them.
Why don’t we start with some experiences.
One overa... |
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| A whole new world
2006-08-22, Cairo, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | The song, “a whole new world” comes to mind here in Cairo, except it is me on the magic carpet, soaring around and seeing wonderful new things, instead of Aladin, and there is no beautiful princess be... |
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 | Caught up in a whirlwind...
2006-08-07, Cairo, Egypt. By: saradekker | | Hectic, health, heat, help, hilarious. These words describe our time in Cairo, Egypt. The last official stop for team Far East Asia turned out to be quite eventful. The day we arrived, another one ... |
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 | Egypt & Israel
1999-12-08, Cairo, Egypt. By: Ray | | 96/10/30 Egypt & Israel – London, Cairo, Aswan, Nile Cruise, Giza, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Wed, 10/30/96
This week is the last week of my assignment at SCB. Today I decided to take two weeks off and m... |
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