Cairo - Chaotic, Exotic, and Simply Fascinating
The city of Cairo is a chaotic mixture of sights, sounds and smells. It is heaving with life, volatile, polluted and boisterous, with an intensity that both exhausts and invigorates any visitor. It is also distinctive with its ancient monuments in juxtapo... more
A Taste Of Egypt
Egypt’s northern border is the Mediterranean Sea, to the west is the Suez Canal to the Red Sea. Passing through the coundtry is longest river in the world, the Nile. Egypt once had Kings and Queens then they became Christians, (the Copts), Muslims and Jew... more
Sensory overload!
Cairo could be described as an organized India...but that isn't saying much! It completely bashes your senses because there is so much going on around you. A city of 14 million with one of the highest pollution rates in the world (highest in Africa), it c... more
The largest city all over the world
Egypt was the first state to establish a system of administration and a capital with administrative and religious centers. King Narmer, the unifier of upper and lower Egypt 3200 B.C., had chosen Memphis (22 km south from modern Cairo) to be a capital of E... more
Place where history meets future
Cairo is a beuatiful and very controvesive city. The population varies from 16-20mil. inhabitants. My first encounter with Cairo was the City of Dead. It is a part of the city with family thombs where actually people live. From there you get to see it's d... more
Egypt again
In Cairo, was met at the airport by an old friend and taken to a hotel called the Sara Inn Hostel (www.sarainnhostel.c-om)which proved to be the best place I have stayed in during my several trips to Egypt. Assim, the owner was so friendly and helpful and... more
Center of the cultural world
Cairo is the cultural and also geographical center of the globe! Here east meets west and north meets south. As a modern city, it has its own beautifull meening and way of life more
Visiting the pharao's
We left from Schiphol, Amsterdam airportfor an evening flight to Cairo in Egypt. This flight takes about 5 hour from the Netherlands. On most of my trips I travel alone but this time my 15 year old son travelled with me. When he was eleven he asked me to... more
From Cairo to Luxor...
It was adventourous trip to spend hours under the strong sunlight, stroll along the small alleys without knowing where I was sometimes. The first Egyptian was a teacher who was away from home for 3 months for training in Japan. He was helpful to find out... more
Cairo Egypt
Cairo is a huge city. Smoggy, loud, and busy. Very nice traffic signs and paint on the roads but have no idea why! just for looks probably cause no one pays attention to them! more
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