Egypt

This is a travel that I have alone organized, has reserved from here only the flight and found a small hotel to the Cairo, zone of Heliopolis, for means of a friend Egyptian. The Cairo is the largest city but endured it accustoms you to its rhythm; to move to you alone is not a problem, finds single taxis ovunque and with 10 pound (approximately 1.50 euro) can be moved for approximately 25/30 km, if you make drafts in the satisfied outskirtses only 2 or 3 pound. Also being foreign, to the Cairo nobody annoys to you, nobody couples you for the road. If you have need of whichever thing, you ask the women and they are endured much kind ei yours confront. The center of the Cairo, that is Down Town, is a lot crowded, in order to arrive to us in taxi employs to us approximately an hour, the roads are fuel of cars and their way to guide is absurd: the rules like from we do not exist, the star-light red never come respected, to cross the road on foot can turn out an arduous enterprise, must make much attention in how much they difficultly are stopped in order make you to cross, for which council to make one sanitary policy before leaving.

My travel begins having like base the hotel Royal Crown in Heliopolis, small hotel, pretty, cleaned up but with the problem of the warm water only to the morning soon and after the 9 pm. Council to at least take a hotel to 4 stars, therefore you will not have the problem of the warm water and the current, in my hotel when there was the warm water lacked the current.

As far as eating the single thing to which making attention it is the water, for which only water in bottle or drinks sluices, not to use the ice. You can drink calmly the warm drinks ovunque. I have eaten from all the parts and I have not had problems, the important is that is cooked food, nothing of raw. I have eaten also the peak and in i they Mc Donalds without problems. These are the zones that I have visited organizing to me alone.

KHAN EL KHALILI.
This immense bazaar is a center of vital importance for the commerce of the disparati kinds more. Leaving from the mosque of El-Azhar, in the heart of the city of the Fatimidi, and penetrating themselves in it crowds alleys to you, is possible to acquire of all, from the spezie to the woven ones, the objects in wood inlaid to those in blown glass, from the monili in gold to the carpets, scents, objects in silver, branch, brass, spezie. Here there is a particular atmosphere, it smells to it, the colors take to you.

MIDAN TAHRIN.
It is the heart of the modern city, the point in which converges the main lines of communication of the Cairo. Here the Museum Egizio, important political centers is found, cultural centers. Beautifulst public square, always affollatissima, to all the hours. In the roads round it finds the greatest ultra modern storees of apparel to clean the shoes.

MIDAN RAMSES.
This is an other important public square, famous node of traffic and for the great statue of Ramses, high approximately 10 meters: spectacular. The public square is close to the railroad; with the train you could be moved in the near cities but for we impossible what is one, the trains is affollatissimi, is people that travel with the cages of the polli, difficult to find a place to seat, for which I advice against to move itself in train.

CAIRO TOWER.
It is the symbol of of Cairo modernity: high 187 meters, offer one evocative vision of the Cairo until seeing the pyramids. The tower is found to Gezira, small isolates in means to the Nilo. Salting to the 16° slowly you can make photo of great effect, especially of night. To the 14° slowly there is the revolving restaurant, for which you can eat and admire the beauty of the Cairo.

CITY Of the DEAD.
From cemetary mamelucco came transformed in densely inhabited area. The lack of lodgings and the poverty line have made of this zone a crowded suburb where the tombe they are used like rooms. This zone is not much recommendable one in how much lives deprived of hope people here more, for which, if you want to visit it, it is test not to go alone but it makes you to accompany from someone of the place, can ask whichever tour operator for the Cairo.

MOHAMMED MOSQUE.
It is found to the inside of the Citadel.It is dictates also alabaster mosque. From you have one seen here panoramic on the Cairo, you can notice in distance the pyramids.

NAVIGATION ON THE NILE:
To go around on the Nilo with the boat. I have left from the center of the Cairo and I have gone back the Nilo for two hours, then pause to MOTAKA, ancient citizen where he finds great contradictions: the lussuose villas of emiri Arabic placed side by side to a lowest level of the life of the local population.

GIZA.
The pyramids... sfinx... the show that it finds in front of your eyes is impressive, the maestosità of the pyramids, the sfinge that it really seems to give the guard to this immense show... Not there are words in order to describe the emotion that takes to you when you see all this.

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM.
It is in the zone of Midan Tahrir. Creed that all we know that this is one what absolutely not to lose, but it demands time for being visited a lot is immense. Not to lose it knows them to them of the treasure of Tutankamon, its funeraria mask in massive gold is one unforgettable show.

This time, we want to take a trip to Egypt, Red Sea, in an area not crowed from tourism, looking for the peace so we decided to serve the coast from Sharm el Sheikh to Taba with base in Nuweiba ( around 200 km far frm Sharm ).

Arrived to Sharm, waits for us a travel of two hours in order to catch up Nuweiba; we make in jeep, the road is in means to the asphalted desert but. The landscape is beautifulst, is in means to mountains of the desert, sees of the villages lives to you, camels to them origina nature, free dogs, understood also to see the carcass to us of some dead camel. To half road we see the camel larger of the world! Yes, it is a full of rocks formation that seen from far away has the shape of a great down camel... the games of the nature! We arrive to Nuweiba and we lodge to the hotel Domina, small hotel with bungalow. Before unravelling the suitcases we go to see the beach :sand, with palms, wild. From the beach the profile of Saudi Arabia, a beautifulst show seen to the morning is noticed at daybreak between the thousand shadings of red yellow and of the colors of the sky. Nuweiba is our base and from we will make all the coast here.

NUWEIBA
It is uniform in two distant parts between they some kilometers. The part with beaches and the hotels is Nuweiba el Tarabin, while the zone with the port and the village of Bedouins is Nuweiba el Muzeini. On the coast of Nuweiba many places are found where to lodge spending nearly nothing, it is not necessary to make reservation. The beach is large, with palms. In the sand it finds many crabs with their lair, the beautifulst sea and for little the tourism the possibility is had to see fish various, type the snakes of sea, razze, and if six lucky person you can meet also the dolphins. In the country there are only little storees, nothing discotheques, nothing local nocturnes but one immense peace. The local population is much cordial one. Towards evening you see the beach to still crowd itself of the Bedouins whom they fish, in ancient way; to times we have gone with they to fish the small cuttlefishes, then one beautiful grilled on the beach with they.

DAHAB.
It is found to approximately 100 km from Nuweiba, with beaches golden. In the country there are many shops and small restaurants where it can be eaten of the optimal fish. The country is much characteristic one, the handicraft costs less than to Sharm and from the excursion to Abo Galum can here be made, where beautifulst coralline barrier is one.

TABA.
It is the last country before catching up Israel. It is found to approximately 100 km from Nuweiba. The road that door to Taba is costeggiata from the sea from the shadings blue-turquoise. Along the road the spectacular bay of Fijord is found: one deep similar bay to the Norwegian fjords. Continuing, after a short feature the water small lake salmastra of Sun Pool, situated in one is caught up species of natural amphitheater to little steps from the boot topping. From Taba the Pharaoh' s Island is caught up, to approximately 200 meters from the coast, encircled completely from coralline barrier; here the waters are indeed crystalline and on the island the castle of Saladino can be visited.

These are the cities that we have visited, but have made also excursions in the entroterra, easy to go from these places.

MONASTERO OF SAINT CATERINA.
It is hard in how much a part of night in order to catch up the top, but when to the dawn admires repaid panorama six of all. The monastero is like one religious citadel with buildings of rare beauty.

COLORFUL CANYON.
It is caught up in jeep, between sabbioso and full of rocks desert. It arrives, makes a walk to you of approximately an hour dipped in mountains, where the cliffs I assume of the particular colors, from the yellow to the red one and the erosions of the time have formed of the designs. To the end of the walk a warm tea from the Bedouins.

OASIS OF AIN FURTAGA.
It is arrived to Us in jeep crossing a sands dune zone low and stony plateaus, where they are looked at frequently stretches to them of the Bedouins who live to the margins of tourist Egypt. After to have asked the permission, it can be visited the oasis and drink with the Bedouins the habac, an aromatized tea. Here there is an incredible peace, the world has stopped itself and makes one hard work to return out...

There would be from writing to the infinite and however the words cannot take the place of the images, in order to understand the feeling that test to visit these places, must is to us. I have visited Egypt in wide and in along but sincerely these places they are those that more me are remained in the heart, the beautifulst memory of places where, fortunately for we, the mass tourism has still not arrived.