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The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt on Tuesday has delayed the application of new prices for foreigner visit fees to archaeological sites and museums until May 2022.
This came during a...
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The headline is a bit misleading! its not free, just the increases in fees are delayed :roll: Egypt knows how to attract the tourists back :D
A few days ago I was looking at some photographs I had of the happy and interesting visits to Garagous Pottery. This evening I have seen this article. I hope that some kind of intervention can take...
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What a shame we still have got a lot of pottery from our numerous visits there.
At least 32 people have been killed after two trains collided close to the Nile-side town of Tahta, around 230 miles south of Cairo.
The country's railway authority said emergency brakes in the...
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Egypt allocates EGP 225bn for development of railway transportation system. All outdated trains will be replaced by 2021 end: Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir
More than 30 nations on Friday signed on a scathing condemnation of Egypt’s record of human rights abuses under rule of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, a staunch partner of the west and an...
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“We remain deeply concerned about the trajectory of human rights in Egypt,” said a statement issued by Kirsti Kauppi, the Finnish ambassador to the human rights council
Dealing with coronavirus: Atypical answers in Egypt
Some of the larger questions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have been met with atypical answers in Egypt.
Dina Ezzat , Saturday 13 Feb...
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And this from the Egypt Independent:
Meteorologists predict moderately warm weather on Sunday over Cairo, Lower Egypt, and northern Upper Egypt, moderate weather on the northern coasts during the...
Egypt will soon inaugurate the first archaeological replicas factory in Egypt and in the region as part of efforts to fight the spread of Chinese-made products in the local markets....
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I can’t recall seeing any tourist replicas with Chinese features....but the ancient Egyptians were a funny looking lot....
While negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have been brought to a standstill, Cairo is channeling its efforts to preserve the waters of the Nile by supporting local...
The Egyptian Air Authority announced the return of Russian tourism to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada next March 28 where Russian Nord Wind operates 4 flights per week.
The Egyptian...
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So that's a No then, is it ?
They held bloody good parties them Russians, over in their guest lodge in Qourm Lola,
loads of vodka & caviar and singing, amazing bunch.
Bet all their caricatured faces...
SHOPS WILL NOW BE FINED UP TO EGP ONE MILLION FOR SELLING WITHOUT AN INVOICE
Shops will now be required to give their customers an invoice, or receive a fine of up to EGP one million. If the offense...
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Your right Dusak it applies to Egyptians too, my bawab went to buy a new water heater for me, I had asked the bawab make sure you get a receipt but the shop owner refused to give him one, the box was...
A few years ago an egyptian farmer and his 'PR man tried to sell me a meteorite, but were not willing to
show me it..'therein laid the small but important sticking point!
Any how my mate Maria once...
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Hmm... don't most if not all meteorites seem to land in deserts? How can that be? Surely some must fall on heavily populated areas.
Well....70% of the earth is covered by ocean and one third of...
January 2021 and much of the talk centres around the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines, and just how serious the problem is, or not, in Egypt.
Many deny that there is virus. If they accept that it exists...
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During the Mubarak years Egypt could best be described as an oligarchy/kleptocracy.
What we have now is definitely an oligarchy....but perhaps not so much of a kleptocracy. Or maybe they’re just...
The government has now published comprehensive details of the covid-19 test required for everyone entering the UK.
The rules come into force 18th January 2021.
For those travelling from Egypt,...
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It's important to add now that it has been announced this evening (15/01/21) that there will now be No Travel Corridors into the UK. Everyone entering the country will be expected to Self Isolate for...
Perhaps photography in hospitals poses a health risk :urm:
Or is it to protect privacy? Too many patients taking selfies? Who knows? :ni: :tk
Informed sources revealed that government hospitals...
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I heard from a source that the perpetrator was arrested for taking and publishing such a video and the authorities attacked the hospital staff for 'deserting' their posts.
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