Day 10 Discover Egypt We are woken by the the porter at 03:45 for breakfast. The breakfast is no better than dinner and most of it is left. The train arrive at Giza Station in Cairo about 5:00 and we all disembark and climb onto our bus which is waiting outside. Back to the Pharaohs hotel and thankfully we can check in and have a nice shower. After a few hours rest we head out to explore Coptic Cairo, visiting some churches, mosques before going to the marke...

Day 2 Discover Egypt Today I head out to the pyramids again with my new group. In addition to Rachel and Scott we are joined by an Aussie family, mum and dad and 2 boys and a girl. Grant and Jen are both about my age and Brianna, Mat and Leon are all in their teens. We arrive at the pyramids and again I find my self in ore at the shear size of them. The sun is getting hotter and we head out to a view point. This is the place where we are going to ride the ca...

Day 1 Discover Egypt This morning I said good by to Alana. It is hard to see my new friends leaving but will spend the afternoon with Lucinda hanging out before I join my new group. I check out of the hotel and we jump into a taxi to go to the hotel Pharaohs. The guy from reception at our last hotel has told the taxi driver the address, but some how I don't think this has helped as we are driving round in circles, he is LOST. In the end he asks someone in the...

Day 8 Today we leave the Sinai and head off to Cairo. The journey takes about 6 hours. We travel under the suize canal and after about an hour we see the vast expanse of Cairo stretching out in front of us. The whole of Cairo seems to be under construction with buildings half built and rubble every where. It is very hot and the roads are mad. We arrive at the hotel and it is the best so far. We check in and all head out for something to eat. We stop at a resta...