Posted in 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Local Customs, Luxor, Travel, tagged Cairo, Luxor, train on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Friday 29 September 2000
We took our seats on the Aswan train leaving Cairo at 12.30am. We had bought first class tickets which cost an incredible LE60 (LE40 for me with my International Student Card discount). That’s only about £6.00 in English for a ten hour journey of 660km! The spotlessly clean carriage was occupied [...]
Posted in 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Local Customs, Travel, tagged Cairo Metro, Egyptian Museum on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Thursday 28 September 2000
Sitting quietly in the rooftop restaurant of the Ciao Hotel at breakfast this morning, by an open window enjoying the relatively clean air, high enough up for the petrol fumes not to reach us, Jenny and I were in a subdued mood. I knew that she was feeling the same about [...]
Posted in 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Travel, tagged Giza, pyramids on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Journal: Wednesday 27 September 2000
I am not a city person and neither is Jenny. We’re both sick of the hassle of taxis and just beginning to regret staying in a cheap hotel on the wrong edge of Cairo, so we decided to walk towards the Egyptian Museum where it should be easier to find a [...]
Posted in 2000, Archaeology, Cairo, Egypt, Travel, tagged pyramids, Saqqara, Step Pyramid on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Early this morning Jenny and I were waiting outside the hotel for the taxi that we had arranged for a trip to Saqqara. We had asked the driver if he could take us first to Abbassiya so that I could get my antiquities pass and then on to Saqqara afterwards. Yesterday [...]
Posted in 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Travel, tagged Egyptian Museum, Khan el-Khalili on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Monday 25 September 2000
Even though we had such a late night, I saw the sun rise this morning from the tiny balcony of our hotel room. I hadn’t slept for long, being unused to the noise of a vast city in the early morning and the shunting and forlorn hooting of trains in the [...]
Posted in 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Travel, tagged Ciao Hotel Cairo on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Sunday 24 September 2000
September. Jenny and I are once more in Egypt, this time flying into Cairo airport instead of Luxor, my usual destination. On my first visit to Cairo in 1995 I had hated the bustling monster of Cairo city with its teeming population and ochre-coloured smog hanging over the buildings. It took [...]
Posted in 1995, Cairo, Egypt, Luxor on August 16, 2007 | No Comments »
We had spent only two full days in Cairo, but it felt like much longer. I still wasn’t sure if I liked the city but it certainly had been an important part of the ‘Egyptian Experience’, as our package was called. On the surface, to the casual tourist who is ferried about in coaches and [...]
Posted in 1995, Archaeology, Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Memphis is the Greek name for the what was then the administrative capital of ancient Egypt, which dates right back as far as the Early Dynastic Period. The origin of the city’s foundation is credited to the mythical first king, Menes, who is said to have united Upper and Lower Egypt for the first time [...]
Posted in 1995, Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
On our second day in Cairo we arranged for a taxi to take us on a tour of the monuments at Giza and Saqqara. The day was bright and clear – the smog mysteriously disappearing as we travelled westwards away from the city. The driver, whose name was Hassan, took us first to Giza, famous [...]
Posted in 1995, Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
The traffic in Cairo was truly terrifying. The roads are clogged with all kinds of transport. Coaches and microbuses, taxis and private cars vie for every centimetre of tarmac with donkey-carts and bicycles. Every vehicle was so covered in dents and scratches that I was amazed the roads were not littered with accident victims as [...]
Su's detailed descriptions and photographs of Egyptian Monuments
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