The day before going to Upper Egypt, we met Yasmine in an impressive modern mall in Cairo. She used to be a student of teacher Nagui, now working and finishing an MBA. Yasmine is an open minded woman with strong…
Results of the Egyptian Elections
The details of the results can be shown in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2012]wikipedia[/url] In the first round, 3 candidates got more than 20% of the votes: Shafik, the former prime minister Morsi, an independent candidate from the party founded by the Muslim Brotherhood…
Egypt map
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Alexandria
One of my motivations of my trip to Egypt was to meet Anita, a German girl I met back in Regensburg, Bayern some years ago! She is working in a German primary school in Alexandria as a teacher. Arriving in…
Dahab
Back in Cairo, I wanted to go to the white desert with some friends of Nagui, but they were not available these days. I was actually appreciable to rest instead a little in Cairo and deal with my pictures: I…
Politics in Egypt
Coming in this time in Egypt is very interesting, between the French and Egyptian presidential election! Walking in the streets, everybody asks you “where you from”, I answer “France”. The reaction is then “Sarkozy out, good!” It is pretty clear…
Egyptian Railways
The price and booking systems are a little strange. In the way Cairo-Aswan, I booked a second class ticket (£58) online (enr.gov.eg), paid by Visa through an Australian website! But I had to book 3 times: the first one, the…
Egyptology in Upper Egypt – summary
I spent five days in Upper Egypt, traveling by train. While the Pyramid in Lower Egypt are the masterpieces of the Old Kingdom (and the tomb of Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty), the Upper Egypt is more related to the…
Pyramids day!
Friday is actually the day off in Egypt, some people go shopping. Phillip and I spend also an expensive day, but the very particular one: we hire a private taxi and went discovering the Pyramids, first Dahshur and Saqqara, then…
Cairo
I spend a few days visiting Cairo with Phillip and Joshua (who we used to call Ibrahim in the public space), as we were all of us hosted by Nagui. Discovery the “Islamic Cairo” was very interesting, walking through the…