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Travel Advice - Egypt
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DJKeefy » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:37 pm
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Still current at: 07 October 2008
Updated: 30 September 2008
This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Crime and River and Sea Safety sections. The overall level of the...
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I am locking this thread.
I am surprised that it has been resurrected, and how fast it is moving off topic.
The original information is over ten years old. It may still be current but, as so much...
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Last post by HEPZIBAH
Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:27 am
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Live Stream from Karnak Temple
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DJKeefy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:50 am
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I saw the governor on tv yesterday and he said 90 percent of the street cameras in Luxor had been installed so far, making the city safer....
Installation does not equal operating and there of...
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Last post by Who2
Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:59 am
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Timeline: Egypt - A chronology of key events
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DJKeefy » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:49 am
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circa 7,000 BC - Settlement of Nile Valley begins.
circa 3,000 BC - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite. Successive dynasties witness flourishing trade, prosperity and the development of great...
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Last post by Dravid456
Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:59 am
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Facts & Figures - Egypt
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DJKeefy » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:56 am
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BASIC FACTS
Capital
Cairo
Language
Arabic is the official language; English and French are used by an educated elite; Nobiin, Berber and Coptic are used for religious purposes.
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It was interesting to note that the literacy rate for women was half that of men and that even in 2002 almost 60% of the female population could not read. As this would be a national rather than a...
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Last post by Once bitten
Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:11 am
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Useful Websites
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Connie Tindale » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:54 am
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We need to rebuild the useful websites page. Please add any that you can think of here.
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Another one for HSBC Egypt:
www.egypt.hsbc.com
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Last post by Countessa
Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:23 pm
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Profile of Egypt
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DJKeefy » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
BASIC INFORMATION
Full Country Name: The Arab Republic of Egypt
Area: 997,739 Sq. Km
Population: 70.5 million (2004)
Capital City: Cairo (population - 16.7million)
People: Eastern Hamitic...
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Last post by DJKeefy
Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
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Trees and Climate Change in Egypt
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Hafiz » Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:03 am
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Climate change will kill us all if not fixed and will also kill trees and plants as well. However there is paradox with climate change maybe, at this stage, making bigger but more fragile/weaker...
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Another depressing- but accurate - summary of the prospective fate of Egypt.
In the absence of any opposition, and with the general lethargy of the masses, I see no change unless and until matters...
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Last post by newcastle
Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:48 am
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Egypt Red Sea province to ban single-use plastic
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DJKeefy » Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:09 pm
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Egypt's Red Sea Governorate is to introduce a ban on single-use plastics that are destroying marine life, the province's top official said Wednesday.
The ban, set to take effect in June, covers...
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Still the staff on the boats are dumping rubbish into The Nile. It's disgraceful. Once it was a beautiful river now its so polluted like The Ganges.
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Last post by crewmeal
Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:10 am
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Car accidents in Egypt down by 24% in 2018
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DJKeefy » Thu Apr 18, 2019 6:56 pm
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The number of reported car accidents in Egypt fell by nearly a quarter last year, according to new figures from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).
Some 8,480...
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Many vehicle accidents - especially those not involving serious injury- go unreported so the statistical drop is meaningless.
Often one, or both, drivers will have been indulging in substance abuse...
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Last post by newcastle
Sat Apr 20, 2019 3:42 pm
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Egypt president raises minimum wage to 2000 Egyptian pounds
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DJKeefy » Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:48 pm
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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds a month from 1,200 pounds, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating women.
Sisi said the...
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I still know many only getting 750Le a Month, so it looks like the Government don't do check-ups to see if the minimum wage is being implemented :(
Goes to show how big the black economy is in...
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Last post by newcastle
Mon Apr 01, 2019 8:56 pm
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Egypt Just Opened its First Long-Distance hiking Trail
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Winged Isis » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:59 am
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Egypt just opened its first long-distance hiking trail and it’s stunning
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A NEW HIKING TRAIL just opened in Egypt. The 105-mile Red Sea Mountain Trail will be the first long-distance...
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Thanks.
Will keep an eye out on the Sinai standard of living but like most Egyptian stats they are terrified about any evidence of gaps in services or standard of living. The jobs you refer to are...
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Last post by Hafiz
Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:37 pm
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Hepatitis C Campaign to Test Foreigners Living in Egypt
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DJKeefy » Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:02 pm
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According to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah’s speech at the final session of the Arab and African Youth forum in Aswan, foreigners residing in Egypt are to be screened as part of the “100 Million...
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Bizarre proposal from Sisi.Is the testing of foreigners - 8 million a year - to be compulsory and where is the law to enforce that. After 50 years of stuff-ups in HepC and with 9-14 million infected,...
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Last post by Hafiz
Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:22 am
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Egypt's banknotes with scribbling: tradable or not?
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DJKeefy » Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:57 pm
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12 March 2019: A week ago, an official at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced that banknotes with writings or scribbles are untradable, a step begged a question on the possibility of trading...
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Yes John I had that problem in Turkey too, It's financially better to withdraw cash from the ATM's in GB Pounds than Turkish Lira and although the banks refuse to take UK money with writing on quite...
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Last post by carrie
Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:02 am
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EGYPTAIR HIRES RENOWNED GREEK CHEF TO OVERHAUL MENUS
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Winged Isis » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:46 am
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EGYPTAIR HIRES RENOWNED GREEK CHEF TO OVERHAUL MENUS
'bout time...
CAIROSCENE TEAM
06/03/2019 12:44
Now seemingly catching up to the fact that in-flight meals still need to edible, EgyptAir has...
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I have a lifetime ban from the Daily Mail website and banned from posting.... Cant imagine why ? 8)
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Last post by John Landon
Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:56 am
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International Women’s Day: An Egyptian Perspective
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DJKeefy » Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:30 pm
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International Women’s Day: An Egyptian Perspective - By Mohammed Nosseir
Let’s look at the issues from a practical, real-life perspective: First, for most young Egyptians, marriage entails a huge...
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I’d take with a considerable pinch of salt any article expressing views on the sexual habits of the Egyptian .
The men invariably exaggerate their virility whilst the women rarely disclose thoughts...
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Last post by newcastle
Sun Mar 10, 2019 9:54 am
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Pillage and Egyptian Government/Banking.
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Hafiz » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:00 am
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Social Security Fund/Fraud
This post is irrelevant to all the essential tourist questions – where do I get toilet paper, where do I eat and drink, why does my tour guide keep offering me members of...
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You dont change governments by voting, if you could then voting would be banned by Government..
Democracy is good, but its all an illusion... :br
**** *** the world bank and watch what happens....
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Last post by John Landon
Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:09 pm
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Egypt launches first-ever floating hospital boat
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DJKeefy » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:31 pm
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On Tuesday, Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed inaugurated the country's first-ever floating hospital on the Nile in Aswan governorate, Egypt Independent reported.
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You are correct Hafiz, We have a hospital in North Wales where I used to work a few years ago, and thier problem was getting decent Doctors to work there.
You see, Doctors like to work in places...
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Last post by John Landon
Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:04 am
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Is it safe to travel to Egypt in 2019?
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DJKeefy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:23 pm
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Egypt’s tourism industry is at a critical juncture as resorts try to win back visitors driven away by fears of civil unrest, religious intolerance and terrorism.
Back in 2010, the industry was...
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The only difference is in the UK its publisised and not swept under carpets. I appreciate it though that the ones that are publised in Egypt end up in an almighty gun shootout with the forces that...
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Last post by Major Thom
Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:05 am
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Bastille or Bombast
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Hafiz » Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:21 am
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Bastille or Bombast.
Many will know that the Cairo Film Festival has attracted bad attention. The one with the ‘see-through’ dress struck me as showing poor judgment given she was about 20 kgs over...
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The same thing happens here. We have the grand old house that backs onto Luxor temple, former home of the well known semi reclusive sisters, late eighties I think, that were found murdered in their...
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Last post by Dusak
Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:07 am
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El Tod
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hatusu » Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:39 am
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A small group of us travelled to the town of El Tod a couple of days ago to see the Temple there. We enjoyed very much looking round the temple but what astounded us was the town itself. Driving up...
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El Tod is a wonderful place, not just the temple, but also the small town. Few tourist visit this place which is rather sad really. It was investigated years ago by French archeologists. As you enter...
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Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:45 pm
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