Tag: Cairo
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Day 256 – Cairo to Amman, JORDAN
Leaving Egypt Today we left Voyage Hotel to start a voyage of our own! A large breakfast, was delivered to our room. After this, we checked out and caught an Uber to the Cairo International Airport. Since we had been here a couple of weeks ago to fly to Luxor (Day 242), we were not […]
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Day 255 – Cairo
Ramadan Eve in Cairo Today, is just a buffer day in Cairo. Our flight out is tomorrow as we didn’t want to miss our flight in case there was an issue with the Bus. So we had a quite morning, before we got hold of the friends we met back in Alexandria (Day 235). We […]
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Day 254 – Hurghada to Cairo
Today we caught another Go Bus back to Cairo. We left our hotel, Sunny Seaside Villa, with an Uber to the bus station and then got on the bus. We had actually just booked the last 2 seats on the bus the day before, so we were right at the back. The gentleman sitting next […]
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Day 241 – Cairo
Today we went on a full day tour of the Pyramids of Giza, Memphis (ancient capital of Egypt) and Saqqara (Step Pyramids and Tombs) with the Cairo based Citico Travel. The tour included a guide/driver and excluded entrance tickets. The tour price was 1,250 EGP / $107.59 AUD for four people. Please note; that Citico […]
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Day 240 – Cairo
Today was a strange day. The first half of the day we were looking for tours of the Pyramids for tomorrow. We ended up talking to several agencies to find a good tour. We could not decide at the time, as we needed to go to the airport to pick up the in-laws, who were […]
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Day 239 – Cairo
Today we left our accommodation, City Hostel after having another massive breakfast. We decided to check out the Coptic Church Area in Cairo. We were super surprised about the amount of Christian sites in Egypt. Once again we had to go through security checks before we could visit. There were various Churches to visit along […]
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Day 238 – Cairo
Today we woke up to a massive tray with an equally filling breakfast delivered directly to our room, at City Hostel. The staff appeared to be quiet surprised about the fact that we didn’t finish the mountain of bread! We walked around 45 minutes towards the Cairo Tower. Along the way we made our first […]
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Day 237 – Alexandria to Cairo
Today, after breakfast we walked 3km to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa from our accommodation, Transit Alexandria Hostel. The entrance fee for the tombs is 80 EGP / $6.89 AUD per person. We did walk past Pompey’s Pillar which was closed yesterday (Day 236), but we decided to skip it; one, due to time […]
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