 | 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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 | Land of Stones
2005-03-18, CAIRO, Egypt. By: wisdom | | I decided that before I died that I would see as much of the world as I possibly could. So far, I have visited 35 countries world-wide and over 60 cities. I keep looking for that elusive gem and I b... |
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 | Update before Uganda
2006-07-08, Cairo, Egypt. By: portersaw | | Hello Friends and Family -
I know that some of you may have gotten a letter with updates from Erin, but for those of you who didn't, here it is:
Sorry I've been so bad at keeping this journal c... |
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 | Welcome to Egypt!
2006-06-11, Cairo, Egypt. By: krispy | | Hey Everyone! Well we arrived in Cairo after a long night of transportation chaos... A frusterating ferry, and overnight mosquito filled bus ride later we made it to Cairo. We're staying at an Anglica... |
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 | Egypt Update
2006-07-04, Cairo, Egypt. By: abrookdg | | We decided one thing today about Egypt. It is definately easy to overplan.
As we left the beach resort of Hurghada and headed to Sharm El Sheikh(tourist spot of egypt....very quiet b/c it's low seas... |
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 | Street Kids
2006-07-02, Cairo, Egypt. By: abrookdg | | Hello again from Luxor!
We have had a great time seeing the Valley of the Kings/Queens, Hapshepsut's temple and so much more. I would love to tell you all about it when I get back. Please see a f... |
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| Our Egptian Travel Agency
2006-07-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: abrookdg | | You may not realize this, but nearly every person in Egypt has some form of Business/travel agency. Our quick planning, desire for convienence and peace of mind, led us to some locals.
Suprising... |
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 | Cairo, Egypt
2006-06-29, Cairo, Egypt. By: drewby | | The instant the rubber touched the runway the passengers of the plane erupted in applause. Welcome to Egypt! Our plane arrived in Cairo a little after three in the morning. Aaron and I had spent th... |
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 | Arrival
2006-06-28, Cairo, Egypt. By: abrookdg | | Hey all. So far so good here in Cairo.
Cairo is a large, more modern city in the sense that it is spread out more than we have seen in Europe. Our original plan was to arrive, sleep at the air... |
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| Hospitals and Camels
2006-06-14, Cairo, Egypt. By: portersaw | | Friends and Family -
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I am just finishing (hopefully) an update I started earlier
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Well, if you haven't heard, the team's been having more health problems. Our l... |
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 | Happy Birthday to me!
2006-06-11, Cairo, Egypt. By: thewilsons | | We celebrated by going with 4 other friends to Chili's - home of bottomless chips & salsa! Yum yum, we were quite happy. And I got sung to in English & Arabic, complete with a volcano ice cream sparkl... |
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 | the medical saga...
2006-06-12, Cairo, Egypt. By: thewilsons | | Where do i begin?
A quick disclaimer - even though this story may seem absurd and make you not want to go anywhere - please know that this is unusual! And that you should still travel - we're still... |
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 | Marhaba Egypt!
2006-03-11, Cairo, Egypt. By: timbo | | G’day Trendsetters,
I am sure you have all been wondering what the hell has happened to me hey? Unlikely but anyway, what are ya gonna do? As the majority of you know I was home for all of Feb, if ... |
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 | Cheap Thrills
2005-12-20, Cairo, Egypt. By: david2004 | | Rocked into Cairo on Egypt Air. Never Again. No in flight safety demonstration, crappy plane, the only saving grace was emergency exit seats. More leg room is not something I would sacrifice for flyin... |
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 | A few days in Egypt
2006-01-24, Cairo, Egypt. By: witcombe | | With Morocco behind me, I arrived in Egypt 5 hours later than expected (planes seem to get delayed just because i am on them). Im staying in a pretty coo hotel in downtown Cairo, called the Ciao Hote... |
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 | this airline is really bad..
2005-12-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: david2004 | | so we caught the most most absurdly heinous airline to Cairo (descriptions in further journal).. thoughts of death were frequent and serious.. emergency exits made it semi worth it.
we were sitting ... |
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 | Long Travels
2005-07-25, Cairo, Egypt. By: sloughj1 | | So, here is how our last week of traveling has gone. It all started about one week ago as we departed Dharamshala, India. We took a four hour bus ride down from the Himalayan foothills. The scenery... |
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 | Honk Honk, Toot Toot....
2001-07-04, Cairo, Egypt. By: aussie_msc | | It's been a busy past few days. We took a trip out to Saqqara and Memphis. The Step Pyramid was much bigger than I expected it to be. Whilst there, we went into an underground tomb, and the guy who le... |
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 | Cairo Museum & Pyramids
2001-07-01, Cairo, Egypt. By: aussie_msc | | So yesterday we woke up early and went to the Hilton for breakfast. After that we went across the street to the Cairo Museum. On the way there (during the 30 second walk), it was the first time I saw ... |
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 | Crazy Happenings....
2001-06-31, Cairo, Egypt. By: aussie_msc | | It was only a few hours flight from Dubai, to Egypt. The airport wasnt so great. When we were landing I saw a lot of rubbish just beside the runways, and people just all over the place.
When we got... |
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 | All egypted out
2004-09-06, Cairo, Egypt. By: nickvdp | | Well back again after a big huge gap, finely got the motivation to catch up on the travel journal and upload some photos after numerous false promises.
Aug 30 – Overnight Train/Aswan
Caught the ... |
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 | egyptian goddess...
2004-05-20, cairo, Egypt. By: kenly | | magnuna is arabic for crazy, which is a good word to know after the 20th tout comes at you at the pyramids. Actually, the touts are not as bad as I thought they would be, and once you say no, they ge... |
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 | Flower of the Nile
2004-03-08, Cairo, Egypt. By: iqjourney | | Christian is in love with the mystic light surrounding the river Nile. For him it is a pure pleasure to return as he has been living and working here for 4 years. That was quite a while ago. Now he fo... |
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 | Egyption Museum
2003-12-17, Cairo, Egypt. By: g8inglost | | We'll the museum itself is in shambles, but the artifacts speak for themselves |
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 | the hidden treasures of cairo
2003-01-15, cairo, Egypt. By: lomotravel | | on our last day, we were panicking because we had been told (by my sister) about a fantastic church hidden in the garbage city behind the citadel. we had the name and approximate whereabouts but the w... |
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| the pyramids
2003-01-14, cairo, Egypt. By: lomotravel | | up and early at 6:30 we headed down for our breakfast before setting off for our visit to the pyramids, a journey that millions of people have made before us and yet never seen through our eyes.
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