I have also been to Egypt before, but because the children were small, the pyramids and other cultural values did not pay for the complexity of the journey. It wasn't in Tunisia before and I thought I'd throw a quick shot there.
Thus, the goal of the Carthage and Bardo Museum in Tunisia would have liked to reach Sahara, but did not allow a limited time limit. Just did not want to go in and back.
Aim in Egypt with pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara, Egyptian Museum and Alaksandria.
Tunisia and Egypt are united by Egypt. Also, Tunisair, but for some reason, there were no tickets for a few months before Cairo. When buying tickets, there is a significant difference between being in a business class or a business class, so I decided to try Tunisian and Cairo lounged and a business class in Egypt.
And now tips and observations:
- Tunis Airport is excellent except lounged. The one allowed by the Egyptian ticket lounge was non-existent, with no internet, overcrowded with one of the non-existent baths and terrible coffee. The second was the Star Alliance lounge, which was clean, while there was no food or drink, no internet, no service and no toilet. All that was missing in the lounge was very polite in the rest of the airport.
- The Egyptian business class is frustrating with thick stewardesses and very rude flight attendants. The service on board was terrible as well as offered. To some extent, it was fully compensated by the courtesy room and video system (on the flight), but there was a terrible video system back
- Cairo airport lounge was funny, with poor coffee and no alcohol. Eating dry sandwiches. The internet was, according to the letters, there was actually no. The staff was terrible.
- The Cairo airport security officer who lit up my luggage asked me for a tip after that! Unbelievable!
- The documentary control of airports and the filling of papers in the internet age are incomprehensible. Why fill out any forms if there are copy / photo devices. NB! The writing instrument must accompany you, if not, you can stay there. An Egyptian visa is simply a sticker from a bank office, and there is a reference at Cairo Airport where it can be bought.
- The taxi economy is just as out of hand, as soon as you arrive inside the airport building, you will be more refined by the sophistication of the brothers, and when you leave the airport, you will be surrounded by a ghastly community who all think you are their sponsor. In fact, the first time you arrive, you always have to pay for the transfer, but the more expensive. When you arrive several times, you already have experience and it is difficult to strike the foot. The same goes for Tunisia.
- Cairo is terribly dirty, houses are unfinished for tax reasons (in fact they probably don't bother), sandy brown. I last encountered this kind of garbage in India. Depressing
- Cairo traffic is a constant impulse, all drunk and no car has less than 100 dents / crashes and so some pamper does not puck. Pedestrians are not anyone, the foore is little. Pedestrians must walk around the streets at high speeds (half of the cars do not light in the dark), after a successful crossing the pedestrians push each other.
- There is no real life in the area of large, famous and expensive hotels and embassies. The streets are closed, blocked and manned by soldiers. Garden City is an absolute city center, which today is a ghetto with blind streets and empty houses, where people do not move and there are not even shops.
- One might think that restaurants meet in Cairo every step of the way, but the real life is that there are no restaurants. When you search for your own, you may not find anything at all, you will find something in the Google Maps application, but they may be in a closed / restricted area where only a local employee / employee can get. The food is still so and so. But the price is quite reasonable.
- Tunis has the same story with food, people eat fast food, and restaurants where the tourist can eat in the evening are few.
- The weather in February is terribly cold. In fact, I wanted to be neither hot nor focused on historical values. In reality, Cairo was one day warm at the end of February, on other days 16-18 degrees, when the wind was so strong that I went to a sweater and jacket. Tunisia had 13-17 degrees, the same strong wind. I'm not so cold in Estonia in winter.
- Hotels in Tunis can be without heating (obviously), terribly cold. I always put sandals on my feet to get to the toilet because the floor was so cold. The first hotel was partly underfloor heating, where the windows blew.
- The Egyptian economy seems to be built on tip, brawl and corruption. Everything is shopping. You can't take a picture there, but do what you want for 2 euros. Our driver had to pay a bribe to the hotel security officer to stop by the hotel and pick us up.
- The tourist is trying to catch everyone, it wouldn't be awesome if they didn't make you so stupid. Apparently, the average tourist is still stupid in sharing his tip and status, but for me their behavior was offensive. So congratulations to all the tip divisors and overpayers, you have been able to get the people of one country to the tourists thoroughly. Of course, they have been used to climbing tourists for centuries, and healthy families are probably focused on it. If someone comes to you and says you look like an Egyptian, he really wants your money. As with all other questions and exclamations: "You have beautiful shoes", "Where do you come from", "I once had a girlfriend from Estonia (there is always a good impression that there are many Estonians because everyone shares it)" etc.
- The pyramids are powerful and proud, sorry for the people who built them nowhere from Egypt. The same is true of Tunisia and Carthage, at least by the glory of Carthage.
To sum up, I got what I was looking for. Historical values, life / life and a little adventure. Personally, I liked this nasty and dirty, unorganized and corrupt experience. And it would go back.
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