Cairo,
Make sure you stay at a 10 Stars hotel -Sofitel El Gezirah is good-, you don’t need to spend more than 2 days there…the morning of the first day you visit the pyramids and museum in the afternoon you find a good restaurant and have lunch -grilled\fried sea food is your safest bet, then go back to the hotel for a siesta.
In the evening you could take a Nile tour -hotels have the best ones- at night around 1 am find a good night club to watch belly dancing because you didn’t visit Cairo if don’t do a belly dance night.. at 7am you leave the night club back to hotel have breakfast and sleep.
Night clubs: Samire Amis Intercontinental and a couple at Haram St.
Restaurants: Abu El Seed, and Nile City.
Coffee: On The Go at any gas station, Bottled Water: Nestle
Don’t ask taxi drivers or waiters for recommendations, only ask the concierge or do some googling. Keep reading →
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I stitched a couple of videos i shot while diving\snorkeling in Sharm, i will be posting the photos on flicker soon.
Update: photos posted here
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Two weeks ago -June 27 to be exact-, i changed my Zain line form postpaid to prepaid, i was told its gona take 10 minutes for the line to work but of-course it did not, called 107 to check and was told to just give it another 30 min…one hour later and the line is still not working called them again and this time a smart guy answer and he knew what the problem was… he opens a ticket and tells me it will take up 48 hours to work !!!
Called them yesterday -after 13 days- and they go we tried to speak to you but we couldn’t..i go: don’t call me just activate the line why do you want speak me about?
They said ok fine it will work in the next 24 hours…called them again today and reminded them of what they told me yesterday and they said we are working on it and it will get solved in less that 24 hours Inshalah!!!
شدعوه يا زين…كلها كبسه زر، ما يبيلها اسبوعين
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For the past 3 days we were either snorkeling of diving, we went on a diving trip to Tiran…there was around 25 people on the boat and the trip lasted around 8 hours, we stopped in three different places and had lunch on the boat.
I’ll leave with a small sample..but i’ll be posting more of photos and videos i took with my humble tools..a Sony Cybershot and the water proof camera bag…so stay tuned.
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Categories: Egypt · Fish · Nature · Travel · Video · Water Sports
Saw this poster, and thought i should share it…i love the Boney M, back in the days they were “Z” band -yes am that old – i love their music danced to it and still do.
Egyptian movies were the only movies that played Boney M music at the time where the Boney M were way out of fashion…we used to make fun of the people who danced to their music is these movies.
Ironically the Boney M -or what is left of them- will perform is Sharm El Sheikh end of July thru mid August.
You can book tickets from here
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Cairo is very crowded and the traffic is awful, there is nothing to do in the morning other than visiting the Pyramids or the museum and this is what we did on Friday.
The best thing to do is to rent a Karta -Hantour- and the guide will show you everything and recite the history of the Pyramids-he can do it in 6 languages-, then he’ll take you to a perfume shop..don’t let them lure to any of that.. don’t even go in.
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Saturday 6:30pm,
I woke up Friday 11am to visit the Pyramids and Cairo Museum -a post about the visit will follow- and am still up since then..around 31 hours so far, we had a small incident….we left Cairo Saturday 4am heading to Ras Sider and half way one of the cars flipped over and 2 guys got injured, so we headed back to Cairo..that’s after the police paper work and first aiding the injured-a broken arm and a pretty good scare-.
The meeting at Ras Sider was supposed to be our last business meeting before flying to Sharm El Shaikh, anyway the dude needs to rest a couple of days and do some proper checkups at a proper hospital in Cairo before we can meet again and finalize what we came here for, so its no use waiting in Cairo…we are on the way to the airport hoping to find a fly to Sharm.
Update: i ended this and went to bed Sunday 5am, my total up time was 42 hours..not bad..i could have completed the 48 but i couldn’t find anything interesting.
Categories: Caffeine · Cappuccino · Coffee · Crash · Egypt · Extreme
If you are into sand surfing and visiting Cairo then Cairo dunes is for you, not very high…but they are Ok, you will need to take a lot of water, food, and everything you might need because civilization is 2 hours drive from there.
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The past 3 days were very hectic, waking up at 6am…commuting for 2 hours working tell 7pm then commuting back 3 hours -bad traffic-, tomorrow is an off day so i’ll be going out today don’t know where yet but i will not sleep…will probably sleep tomorrow by the pool.
Oh.. and that guy in the photo got a bit over excited..
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The internet at the hotel is lousy and very expensive -3 KD\hr- and advertising for the 3.6 HSDPA USB stick is here, there and everywhere, so we decided to get it… hailed a cab and asked him to take us to the nearest Vodafone branch…walked-in and asked for 2 devices on a prepaid plan..we were asked for ID thats when they found out that we are tourists and not residents and was turned down, the cab was still waiting for us outside to take us back to the hotel and he asked why we came back empty handed.. we told him..he asked if they would accept his ID we said we could try, so we went back in again he presented his ID and got us 2 devices.
The thing cost KD20, 10 for the device and another 10 for the unlimited plan!!!
Categories: Egypt · Gadgets · Internet · Shopping · Technology · Telecom · Vodafone
I was told not to eat and not to drink but i did…we had dinner yesterday at a place called Abo El Seed, its a cosy restaurant in the Zamalek area, they serve local cuisine -i did not know they had anything other than El Fool-.
The food was good, and what’s even better is that 24 hours has passed with no side effects, we had some local starters then a couple of Tagine dishes and finally Fetair Mishlitet.
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Had to leave to Eygpt with a client, we will be staying till July 11, working the first 6 days then off to Sharm to relax…so far so good so funny.
Posted from my iPhone.
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Today Valantino Rossi made his 100 win in the MotoGP, with this win Rossi became the second rider in the MotoGP history to score a 100 win after Giacomo Agostini who is considered the greatest MotoGP rider of all time -122 win-.
After the win, Rossi went to greet his fans and they surprised him with a huge banner with photos of Rossi’s 100 wins.
The first couple of laps of the race gave the impression that this is going to be an entertaining race but after Pedrosa fell and Stoner went back to third place, Rossi was only racing himself and beating his own lap times lap after the other.
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Alboom Media just launched their news\advertisement ticker service, the ticker displays local and international news and updated 24/7, ticker can be downloaded to your PC and the news will scrolls at the top of the screen, users can view the news of a category of their choice -local, international, sports, entertainment, technology-without the hassle of browsing through many web sites especially at the office where you are supposed to work and not read news and stock tickers…clicking a news or image on the ticker will take you to the corresponding web page to view the full article, AlboomNews is customizable and the user can select from eight different languages, it’s also a great marketing tool for companies that would like to do some online marketing.
They only have PC version, a MAC version will follow soon and an iPhone app is in development.
Download it here.
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