Cairo to Hurghada
Trip Start
Jul 26, 2010
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Trip End
Oct 31, 2010
Hurghada, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
We broke camp early to avoid some of the heat and finally visited the pyramids. We hoped to get a picture of Corrie in the pyramids parking lot, but with empty jerry cans on the roof and half empty gas canisters, the local police were convinced that we were planning to blow the place up and kindly requested us to park elsewhere (which turned out to be a local hotel). The Pyramids and the Sphinx are amazing to be behold. The interior of the Great Pyramid is a little disappointing after the big build up, but another box ticked.
After walking quite a distance around the pyramid complex we moved on from Cairo. On Mamdo's advice we decided to take the Red Sea coastal road to Luxor rather than following the Nile road. This is only 40km longer but had numerous benefits including reducing tens of check points to only a couple, less traffic and double lane highways with only the occasional unmarked speed bump to surprise us. The whole area along the coast is being developed into a weekend getaway spot for the Cairo wealthy, with miles of wind farms behind them generating their power. We stopped at a nice hotel in Hurghada for the night since the only other option was the public beach, and after our Libyan beach experiences we were not keen for a second round.
