El camino del Ray
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I just found an amazing video in twitter.com/hessendscher’s Tweets. Enjoy!
Archive for May, 2008
The Egyptian Museum + Trip Conclusion
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
On our last day in Cairo we went to the Egyptian Museum, right around the corner of our Hotel. It was full of people but not as busy as expected. We followed the Museums Guide in our Lonely Planet and made our way through several rooms of this huge museum.
We liked especially the ground floor […]
It’s belly dance time
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Tonight we wanted to check out some Belly-dance. For this we’ve chosen the Seramiris InterContinental, where the famous Dina is dancing (one of the top belly dancers in Egypt). But before we went to Abu El-Sid restaurant, in Zamalek for a nice dinner and, of course, another sheesha (love that stuff).
There we enjoyed a nice […]
Very good, very cheap and very Cairo
Monday, May 12th, 2008
After our visit of Al-Azhar Mosque, we took the underground shortcut over to Midan Hussein, the place in front of the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Hussein and where the craziness of the Khan al-Khalili starts. Right behind the restaurants with outdoor seating, are a couple of alleys to enter the Khan. We took that one on […]
Islamic Cairo
Monday, May 12th, 2008
After having a nice breakfast in a western-style café in downtown, we took a cab to islamic cairo, to the Mosque & School of Sultan Hassan, right below the Citadel. After our first visit to a Mosque in Egypt, we tried to find the way by foot to Mosque Ibn Tulur. Basicly an easy route, […]
A very nice dinner at Sabaya
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
After our Desert Adventure we had to take a little nap and got up at 8pm - dinner time.
We got ready and headed to the Semiramis InterContinental hotel, just a few minutes away by foot, which hosts a couple of good restaurants and bars. There our chosen place was the Sabaya, serving lebanese food. We […]
The Scam and the Pyramids
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
So, today we’ve started after just four hours of sleep to the Pyramids of Giza. Because we’re in a rush on this trip (just three full days), we thought it might be a good idea to take the offer of our hotel guys and book a tour to Giza, Saqqara and Memphis for 100LE, so […]
Arrived in Cairo
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
So, we finally arrived in Cairo at 2:15am. After getting our Visas we grabbed our stuff and headed outside, were the friendly guys from the hotel were already waiting. It took about 15 minutes or so, to drive to the hotel. Well, it was in the middle of the night, and everything is really quiet […]
Cairo 2008
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Today we started onto a new adventure. This time we’ve chosen the egyptian capital cairo as the place to go. Due to an official holiday here in germany we’ve got a long weekend and decided to do our first tip on the african continent for just four days. Flights were according to the long weekend […]