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THE 3 ENTRIES THAT WERE WRITTEN 2005-02-17 (chronological ordered)

 
 

Thursday February 17th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Hurghada

(travel diary) Arrival: Egypt

Category: Egypt, 2005
A first hello from a hot and blue-sky Egypt. Temperature is about 25 Celcius and wind is non-existent.

We are currently sitting in an internet cafe in the southern part of Ad-Dahar. We are waiting for a bus that will take us to Luxor. The bus trip will last about 5 hours.. we are prepared with lots of water. We will need it...

The flight went very well. We had prepared for lots of troubles on the Hurghada Airport, but it went very smooth. About 30 min after takedown we were out of the airport! After that we took a really worn taxi for about 30 pounds (Egyptian Pounds) to Ad-Dahar. After the taxi-ride we walked around trying to locate ourselves: looking for landmarks, street names etc. It was hard, even with "help" from city inhabitants.

We became really hungry after a couple hours and around 5pm we sat down in a little kebab restaurant.

After some food vi continued our mission. Shortly after, we met an egyptian (or rather: He met Us). He thought we should go to The Queen Hotel. 25 pounds he said for double-room. "Cheap" we thought and decided to at least check it up so we went there together with this egyptian. The room looked pretty good. But! When we should pre-pay for the room [not recommended] he wanted 75 pounds - he thought we must have heard wrong. We paid 5 pounds for the taxi and said good bye! He tried to trick us.

We then walked to the closest big road, about 100 metres away. By the road we recognized some of the hotels from our map. Yes! We booked a twin room at "4 Seasons Hotel" for the night. 65 pounds (for two). Pretty good. The standard was pretty good: balcony, shower, warm water and it was located very central. We got to sleep at about 7.30 pm.Wed planned to sleep one hour and then find some internet cafe to write in our travel diaries. But.. we were tired so we slept until the next day...
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Thursday February 17th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Hurghada

Walking in Ad-Dahar

Category: Egypt, 2005
Walking in Ad-Dahar - Picture from our walk in Ad-Dahar which was a much bigger "village"[...]
Picture from our walk in Ad-Dahar which was a much bigger "village" than we had thought.

As you can see there are lots of unfinished buildings. A common sight here in Ad-Dahar.
Tags » roads, sunsets, Tobias
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Thursday February 17th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Hurghada

Four Seasons Hotel

Category: Egypt, 2005
Four Seasons Hotel - This is how our first hotel looked like. We only slept here for one night[...]
This is how our first hotel looked like. We only slept here for one night before we left for Luxor.

Of all cheap hotels we stayed at in Egypt, we got the best breakfast here. Besides the normalm bread, butter and marmalade we also got omelette!
Tags » accomodation
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