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41 Reviews I now have been in the Western and White Desert for the third time and it is just breathtaking and absolutely worth it! Our tour guides (www.westerndeserttours.com) were always very friendly, they...
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Jeep Safari Hurghada
10 Reviews The last part of a day trip to Amusement Park, in the late afternoon, was reserved for the safari ride in a desert. There is large number of vehicles, "Mad Max" styled alike, and each one was provided...
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The Mummification Museum Luxor
5 Reviews I must have gone to the other mummifcation museum, 1 human - 1 baboon - 1 cat - 1 bird - 1 crocodile. Some tools and mummification materials, all poorly described in my opinion. about 100 items in...
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historical sightseeing Alexandria
11 Reviews The mission succeeded in cleaning up and preparing for tourist divers the location of Mark Antony's palace, the Timonium. It also cleaned up the wreckage of an ancient 35-metre wooden ship that lies...
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City of the Dead Cairo
13 Reviews City of the Dead (Qarafa, Arafa) is a four mile long cemetery from northern to southern part of Cairo, Egypt. To the people of Cairo and other Egyptians, it is simply el'arafa which means "the...
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sea walking Alexandria
3 Reviews Many of the tourists are rushing to Alexandria only to have a look at the remaining of the famous Pharos Lighthouse. Only few know that nothing has remained till now. Now tourists may watch a modern...
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Memphis and Sakkara Cairo
26 Reviews On the road approaching the Step Pyramids in Sakkara you will see several carpet making schools on both sides of the road. I have read and heard a lot about these places. Reviews range from overpriced...
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Gardens & parks Alexandria
4 Reviews Walking further to the east of Montazah palace, you reach a sandy cove with a semi-private beach that is popular with picnicking families. There are also opportunities for some watersports and...
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Gizeh Pyramids Cairo
11 Reviews The most amazing pyramid views and experience can be had whilst either riding a horse or camel through the desert or having drinks or dinner on the best terrace in Giza. It wasn't until I'd lived in...
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shopping spots Alexandria
2 Reviews Pop down to the seconds bazaar. Where mainly women shop for fabric and clothing. You can pick up some beautiful fabrics for next to nothing. It's interesting to watch the women shop and haggle for...
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Bridges Cairo
6 Reviews If you're lucky enough to avoid all the tourist package tours and take your time walking around in this big city its a good idea to stay close to the Nile . You just have to get used to the crazy...
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coptic monastery Alexandria
4 Reviews At the monastery of Bishoy (Deir Anba Bishoi) a coptic monk showed us the place and explained us the history of the Coptic Christians in Wadi Atrun. After the Romans in the 4th century AD came the...
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Mosques Cairo
11 Reviews Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, madrasas, hammams and fountains. Founded in the 10th century, it became the new...
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Coptic Cairo Cairo
8 Reviews There is more to Cairo than Islamic culture and pyramids. A small but important Christian minority has coexisted in Egypt with the dominant Islamic culture for centuries. They profess the Coptic faith...
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Papyrus Cairo
5 Reviews If you like to buy some real hand painted egypt pictures on real papyrus I recommend Queen of Egypt Papyrus. They have a large collection of paintings and they also use to have demonstrations on how...
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Khan el Khalili Cairo
5 Reviews As there are thousands of shops/stalls in the Khan you will never be at a loss for places to stop, people to watch, items to browse and shop for. Go to the Khan if you are pressed for time(in my...
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Zamalek Cairo
1 Review The zamalek area is one of the quitest places in Cairo,I always love to cruise around it. This picture was taken from Cairo Tower...the area to the left of the picture is the Zamalek. The big orange...
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Eating and Drinking Cairo
3 Reviews If you want to try local beer, take "Sakara". It is very good. In our hotel "Inter-Continental Pyramids Park Resort", bottle of 0,5 l coasts 10 Egyptian Pounds (7 E.P. = 1 Euro). Cheers!
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The biggest fresh water fish I have been told are the Nile Perch and this is just an unreal way to fish and sight see...your desert safari starts in Aswan and can take you all the way down to Abu Simbal to have a look at the Famous temples and then fish all the way back !
If you would like to know a bit more about the lifes of Egyptian farmers nowadays just ask one of the many cabdrivers if he can just drive you through the villages on the Westbank of Luxor and you will soon be where no other tourists come.If you are lucky a youngster will come up to you and offer you a "tour" through his village and even his family's house and if you give him a good tip he will let you take some pictures inside so you have something to remember this "off the beaten path" trip by.Very interesting!!
Especially on the westbank of the Nile there are a lot of sugarcain fields which use the little fertile soil there is.The Egyptians love everything extremely sweet...I think their tea is consists of 60% sugar...:-)))
Egyptian Moscow really situated in the Pushkin museum of Fine Arts. The unique collection of Vladimir Semenovich Golenischeff is exhibited there. The Statue of Pharaoh Amenemhet III — is a superb specimen of Egyptian sculptural portrait of the period. Portraits found in the end of the XIX century in the tombs by the oasis Faiyum, Central Egypt are the earliest examples of painting in the Museum's collection.V.S. Golenischeff was the first Russian professional Egyptologist. In his youth he was greatly interested in Egyptology. First of all his name is connected with the world famous collection which is known to be the core of the Egyptian collection kept in the Pushkin museum of Fine Arts. V.S. Golenischeff began gathering Egyptian antiquities in his youth and considered this matter to be very important. When he visited Egypt he always tried to find a new monument. The fate was favorable...
My Egyptian London consists of the Egyptian halls of the British Museum. The main sight is the well-known Rosetta Stone. It was found in Egypt in 1799 by the French but later turned over to the British, contains text written in three alphabets: Greek, Egyptian, and hieroglyphics. Decoding the hieroglyphics on the stone remained a puzzle to many experts for years. This book provides a biography of the stone, describing the contributions made by many linguists that eventually led to deciphering the mysterious symbols. There a lot of other art masterpieces there. The Cairo Museum has only a copy of the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptian Paris begins for everybody at Place Concorde. It accepted the final view in 1840 when the Egyptian obelisk from Luxor was set up in its center. It was presented to the king of France by Egyptian pasha. It has 23 m in height and is decorated by hieroglyphs which mark famous acts of the pharaoh Ramzes the Second. I admired the Obelisk and dreamed to watch Egyptian Obelisks in Luxor and Aswan. I succeeded 12 years later…Egyptian art is represented in Louver with its full strong. Though having visited this Museum three times frankly speaking I went along Egyptian halls very fast. May be now after my trip to Egypt I would be able to revisit Louver and have a look at these halls with new eyes.
My first meeting with one of the great Egyptian art masterpieces was held in Berlin in 1995. The statue of Nefertiti by Tutmos is keeping there about a hundred years. Nefertiti, wife and co-ruler with the pharaoh Akhenaten and stepmother of legendary boy King Tutankhamun, has long been considered one of the most powerful women of ancient Egypt. A sculpted bust of Nefertiti, whose name means "the beautiful woman has come," is exhibited in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust, which dates from approximately 1340 B.C., was discovered in 1912 by German archeologist Ludwig Borchardt. The structure of Nefertiti's material, plaster over limestone is very sensitive.The Egyptian (Aegyptisches) Museum (Schlossstrasse 70; +49-30/3435-7311, fax +49-30/3435-7312; www.smb.spk-berlin.de, aemp@smb.spk-berlin.de; closed Monday)
This is an unusual visit, not far from Khan al Khalili market, in the outskirts of Cairo. You need an Egyptian guide with you; otherwise local people will throw you stones without pity. You will see an old necropolis complex with hundreds of thousands of indigent people having managed to construct their “homes” among the tombs of the cemetery.But there are unexpected surprises, as pointed me up my old and “habibi” friend Mahmoud, a good guide, official one, who speaks Spanish and English, whom you can meet in Felfela restaurant, or playing backgammon and smoking chicha in a narguile in a lane of Talaat Harb Street. He showed me the impressive and beautiful mausoleums of the Mameluke sultans where now live the descendents of the old porters of the graves. That was really an amazing place to live, like in palaces. Thanks to Mahmoud we got an invitation from these families (I gave them...
Preferably, a day activity unless you like to really get freaked out. Our group ventured into a place called the City of the Dead....good touristy name...suckered me. It's an old cemetary in the Coptic Christian area of Cairo. People have taken up residence in the abandoned buildings where mourners could stay with their family. We got lost in there and ran into a few interesting and friendly people. We ended up following bicycle tracks to find a way out.
The Alabaster Sphinx stands near the ruins of Memphis. It was carved for an unknown pharaoh sometime between 1700 B.C. and 1400 B.C. The Alabaster Sphinx is 8m (26 ft) long and 4m (13 ft) tall and weighs around 90 tons. It is assumed, but not for certain, that this monument may have stood outside of the Temple of Ptah along with the Colossus of Ramses II. The statue was in fact found lying in a pool of water where it must of laid for many years. To be honest, it is easy to overlook the signifance of the Alabaster Sphinx if you have already seen the Sphinx of Giza which I had done the previous day. Although much smaller, it is remarkable all the same.
Four Seasons At The First Cairo
4 Reviews and 208 Opinions You must go through a street barrack and through metal detectors just to get to the elevator and get...
Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa Luxor
8 Reviews and 261 Opinions We had a fabulous time! We were pampered from top to bottom. I am feeling very relaxed. Excellent...
Sultans Gardens Resort Sharm El Sheikh
6 Reviews and 2565 Opinions The Sultans Gardens hotel locate near Sharm El Sheik´s Airport (about 15 minutes drove) and hotel...
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Q: My husband and I booked a trip a few months ago to Cairo & Sharm, and we're considering cancelling given the recent kidnappings in...
A: I dont know what to tell you but I would still go...dont let anyone ruin your plans and dont live with what ifs...Are your planned trips going to be with big tour...
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